[cs02rm0]

I didn't have to, eventually.

Contracting means I just tell them how much it would cost them. It's a remarkably effective filter.

In my younger days I did find myself up at 3am regularly, not having eaten an evening meal with a boss literally sat behind me trying to make me code more. I'd come in the next day and have to undo loads of stuff, it just wasn't effective. One day he proudly announced that he saw his job as keeping salaried programmers in the office as long as possible.

Somehow it got a lot easier after that.