There's a problem many of my colleagues have faced of late. With alarming frequency, entrepreneurs, freelancers and others who make their livings proffering talents that have taken lifetimes to develop are asked to work for free.
Such requests, of course, are seldom as forthrightly phrased as "work for free," camouflaged as they are in chummy badinage peppered with terms like "spec," "barter" and "trade." Though all three of these concepts have their rightful place in our recovering economy, the bank tends to...