I have a corporate client for whom I did some substantial work years ago, but since then I get mostly nuisance stuff. I consider nuisance work the small requests that cause me to stop working on a larger project to take care of the little task. These always turn up when I am in the middle of cracking some difficult nut, which means losing progress on that in order to fix something minor.
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