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As others said you can bill yourself as a consultant and work as an outsider to a company. Doesn't sound like that's what you're looking for though. You're looking for a full-time job in a company acting more or less as a one-man show in your area?

While you loved the variety, etc., can you say you were actually doing good work? Beyond things getting done, did you leave behind working documentation, reproducible data and tests? I've lost track of the projects I've come in to where the previous person was a one-man show and almost always, it was a mess. I can even say I've left some of those messes - in some cases because I was inexperienced, and in other cases, there were corners intentionally cut to fit budgets.

Inherited a project where a small company had a guy working for a year, and we basically had to scrap the code and start over, as nothing worked. Literally we had a server running that everyone was afraid to stop because no one could get it running again, even with the scant docs that were left behind (a combination of a bunch of undocumented go/clojure, with few comments in a smattering of git commits). Months in, we've hit some of the same problems the previous person hit, but had he actually documented the problems and decisions, we may have saved a lot of time (but... it also seems he went down a lot of weird corners, and the decision to scrap/rebuild wasn't really wrong after all).

[_ndcd]

> Whilst you loved the variety, etc., can you say you were actually doing good work?

Yes. I'm proud of what I built, and think I would be happy to inherit it as a first timer. And I would be willing to trade on that as my reputation.