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Consulting can sometimes be arguably worse than the job in that aspect. At least with a salaried job some ups and downs is expected, with consulting if you are
by borplk 9y ago
Consulting can sometimes be arguably worse than the job in that aspect. At least with a salaried job some ups and downs is expected, with consulting if you are charging by the hour people demand value by the hour. I was thinking more in terms of running a SaaS or similar.
What I love about that is that you have long-term goals but it doesn't matter how you get there in the short term. So you can work like a horse for 4 days and rest for the remainder of the week. Or maybe another week you work a little bit 7 days a week.
- pmoriarty 9y ago"with consulting if you are charging by the hour people demand value by the hour" You don't have to charge by the hour. You could charge by the day, week, month, or project.
- borplk 9y agoTrue but the general point stands correct. With a consulting engagement there's usually a higher expectation of consistent proportional value delivered. It's more transactional (we pay $X we get Y). As a salaried employee at least in many companies there's some element of the employee being a long-term asset to the company so the pressure is not as high or as consistent.