[geforce]

Yeah, I feel the same way.

What hurts is when you decide to switch to another company, which has good rep, and finally find out: it's the same. Everywhere. After the big bosses do stupid shit, they get promoted elsewhere, leaves you fix the broken plates, rince and repeat until a merger, bankruptcy, or major reorg. Meanwhile middle management gets bigger and everything gets slower. Good employees leave, bad one get promoted to middle management, and you wonder why you're stupid enough to stay there.

[JoeAltmaier]

That's why I'm a private contractor.

[cs02rm0]

Likewise.

And I've reaped the rewards from it, but there's still plenty to be miserable about. What was that Nietzsche quote?

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

I'm not sure I've found much meaning in my work life.

[JoeAltmaier]

I've got 5 people brought in for the latest contract, folks earning a living because together we provide a much-needed skill to a company in a tight spot. Its been a great few months, and we continue to execute on a 6-month work list and bring them back in control of their process.

Work from home but I'm having a lunch meeting with the major players today which is always a great time getting updates and planning the next week!

So, my work life is great.

[jackgolding]

I'm considering the same, but I recall reading something someone said while I was in uni - "Why would anyone want to be a consultant when you are mainly brought in for the 'gone to shit' situations?"

Any thoughts on this? Is there any difference?

[arkades]

Getting a situation from 90% optimal to 91% is very difficult and produces an improvement few care about.

Getting a situation from 20% optimal to 50% is usually relatively easy; getting to 75% is a giant pain, and either result will get you hailed as a hero.

You also deal with the politics with the disengagement of an outsider, and you're gone before it can suck you in too deep.

[JoeAltmaier]

A missionary is quoted as saying

"Some want to live within the sound of church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell."

It takes all kinds