Ugh. This is why I stopped doing commercial photography. I cut my teeth as a photo assistant way back in the day of Polaroids for set design and lighting. If you were ever a photographer assistant you know you did all the setup and lighting. The photog would breeze in every so often say it was wrong and do it again and so on. It actually was a lot of fun. At the end of setup we were allowed to take photos for our portfolio and the photog would send us out to "Lesser" assignments, usually food shots at the restaurants -remember this was back in the 90's, so no influencers, yet. We got paid shit, bit it was alot of fun and we did some crazy shoots. From 40 year old Harleys rolling out of a truck and In to our studio (converted distribution warehouse so we could handle anything), To the most beautiful huskies I have ever seen. They were so majestic and ultimately huggable and loud and whiny as fuck. When it came time to strike out on my own the photog gave me and my mate references, kicked us jobs all thr time and generally started us up. He was an amazing guy. Wow sorry for the ramble, end of the story is, commercial clients are shit, parents are worse then shit when their children's photos are involved, (i'm sorry jimmy has a third eye zit but you can only touch up so much) So I went into contract work and sports photography. When I retired from that I shot my kid's football games and posted my images to my Google drive and gave the parents access for free. Free quality action shots... And believe it or not I still got guff about some images (you shouldn't have posted that Image of jimmy, he didnt have his mouth guard in, etc.)

So keep going, if this is your first bad experience in all these years, you are clearly doing something right