Relfections On Becoming A Consultant

So as many of you know, round about last year I decided to give the consulting thing a go – possibly permanent. I’d gotten tired of turnovers, layoffs, transformations, reorgs, politics, etc. I took a 5% pay cut – and a return to 40 hour weeks – and gave it a shot.

The end result is I actually liked it. Now let me note that I’m not giving up being a permanent employee (or my own business if anything works out). My take was that if any contract resulted in an offer and I figure it’d work out s...