Here’s a great parody of spec work applied to a variety of real world situations. I’d love to see someone actually do any of these in real life.

Enjoy.

For a serious look into speculative work there are a tonne of articles availalbe over at No!Spec.

A good place to start is 10 reasons not to engage in spec work.

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