[greatpostman]

The real bummer is building An elegant system and then leaving your job. All that effort, owned by someone else.

[qbxk]

I did this in my final days at an agency. Built a db search backend to drive a product query UI for a client. 10 years later I randomly met somebody that worked for the client and they were still using it. Kinda cool, actually.

Sometimes you plant a seed and watch it wither, sometimes you walk away and return to a tree. Moral of the story? Just plant seeds

[cosmotic]

Even worse for a consultant, their job is serially build-and-leave.