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Recently, there was a client who asked to make 10 animations on 10 images for looped YouTube videos.
I thought that the task was not difficult and would not take much time and said the amount of $ 80 (I thought it would be half an hour of work)
As a result, I lost 2 days and spent $ 30 on generation.
Where did I miscalculate? What is wrong with my behavior?:
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