Can you give some details on what you do? I think it's pretty interesting (and rare) that you can make consulting money by taking a paper and turning it into a

Can you give some details on what you do? I think it's pretty interesting (and rare) that you can make consulting money by taking a paper and turning it into an implementation. What field are you in, who do you work with, etc.? Are you independent? I'm doing the same sort of thing at Google. I've been a software engineer for 13 years or so and I switched over to a research group in 2014. There is definitely a culture difference, even though Google is one of the places which has the least "pure" research. All research teams have software engineers pretty much, and they mostly work with the same codebase that engineers do.