[scarface_74]

On the other hand, I wake up , I open my computer, I do 8 hours of work and I shut down in the evening and I leave my home office.

I don’t have to worry about trying to chase clients for work or payment. I get paid when I’m sick or on vacation or holidays. There is a sales team that brings work in and an accounting and legal team to collect payments.

[mythrwy]

For sure 100%.

People are saying "you can charge more" and that's true but over the long haul with dry spells, re-work because you were stupid or a client outclevered you, trouble collecting, vacations, insurance and the fact you can skate by for a bit just showing up if you aren't feeling it for a few days at work, a good job probably does pay better and for certain types of people (I'm not one of those types of people) it is less stressful overall.

Like I said it's not for everyone.

[scarface_74]

To be fair, the “corporate world” for me has been working full time for cloud consulting companies for the past 5 years.

As long as you stay away from staff augmentation projects, it’s not bad. Most of my day to day work is working directly with clients. Unless you are a junior, you’re usually over your part of larger projects (mid level) with little micro managing or the project itself (senior, staff). You’re always of course answerable to your client.

I do understand though. My first stint working in consulting was the consulting department at AWS (full time, direct hire). I would rather get a daily anal probe with a cactus than ever work for a large company again.

I didn’t mind working for a 60 person startup before then where all of the people in charge were grown people and not tech bros