[whalesalad]

I’ve been on all sides of this and bounced back and forth between consulting and product a few times in my career.

First: I think it’s a great idea. Consulting, especially in an agency environment w/ many clients is high energy. Depending on the size of the team you can still wear many hats and touch a lot of different projects. It ends up adding a lot of color to your day to day life.

As far as the monotony of boilerplate: that can be seen as a drag or as an opportunity to develop in house best practices, protocols and tooling to eliminate the drag of all that as well as the room for error/inconsistency.

It’s a lot of fun! I encourage you to jump in feet first. Don’t worry too much about your future career prospects - continue to grow and learn and i’d wager this will make you a better candidate in the future.

My network grew larger than it ever did in agency environments. I built the entire Four Loko website at one point. I have work still running on Farmers.com. I got to provision the first Linux instances inside of a big spooky hedge fund in Century City. It was a great time in my life.

[pwnasaurus]

I appreciate this perspective, thanks!