Seen a few people struggling with pricing negotiations here recently. Maybe pressure due to there being less work out there?

If impostor syndrome gets in the way of sticking to your pricing guns with difficult freelance clients, it might help to think of it this way: (1/3)

Refusing to work for less than the going rate or doing a free test is an act of solidarity with every other freelancer out there.

If you drop your prices on demand, you're lowering the market rate for your profession and probably undercutting your colleagues. (2/3)

But every time you stand by your (totally justified) rate, or refuse to work for free, you're making it easier for other freelancers to do the same.

Don't even let those doubts about what *your* work is worth creep into it. It's about what the work should cost, full stop. (3/3)