... ???

wondering why you didn't fire the client first?

it was decent money and i had the time for it - like the client, just had very different work styles

What was so different? Other than they didn't want to give you any information or...

progress until they saw your progress on the stuff that they didn't want to give you?

?

they're all hardware/low-level engineers, used to building embedded systems, so the more agile nature of web dev was foreign to them

so now more room for clients with even more $$!

exactly!