I can't help you a bit, I know I would not be able to survive as a freelancer being the recluse I am. I just feel like rambling myself.

When I started working for the current company the Prague office was rather small, some 10 developers, all sitting in reasonable sized rooms (4 guys in each), without excessive quidelines, without too much intervention from the US headqarters ... and then we started to grow. Now I am sitting in a room with 20 other guys (and we have bigger rooms) without even the cubicles, with one wall painted purple, the other orange and the other two creamy, with an ugly monster on the purple wall and another made of styrofoam at the door, with company meetings in the american style, with guidelines written by someone insane ... the company simply went Monstrous.

I could never understand those people protesting agains McDonalds, but if I look at the awfull purple wall I start to get the point. I just wonder when are WE going to get company uniforms.

(If you ask why do I stay then ... the salary's good, I've been promoted lately and I'm working on a project that is not really subject to the guidelines and is entirely in my hands. So I do like my job, I just hate the company.)

Jenda
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
   -- Rick Osborne

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In reply to Re: OT: Advice on escaping Corporate America / Starting own consultancy outfit? by Jenda
in thread OT: Advice on escaping Corporate America / Starting own consultancy outfit? by flyingmoose

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