When you are hired by a company for your technical expertise, it isn't your technical expertise alone that makes you valuable to the company. It is also your co

When you are hired by a company for your technical expertise, it isn't your technical expertise alone that makes you valuable to the company. It is also your commitment to leveraging your expertise and problem-solving acumen to helping the company/organization accomplish its mission. Being a contractor is even worse, because it is understood that you don't really care about the organization's mission so you're work is evaluated at a higher bar than everyone else's. All-in-all technical expertise alone doesn't actually count for much in this world, unless you use it to make other peoples' lives easier in some way.