[brandall10]

That sounds about right.

My last employer was a startup and I had this stricken... as well had privisions in place so I could do outside consulting as long as it wasn't in a competitive industry (this they may have given me as I came to them initially doing part-time consulting).

The place I worked at before, a 15k person corp, is a place I wouldn't have even thought of asking for things like that. It would have a couple weeks just to have gotten a turnaround through HR and legal.