I got to experience this first hand. A consulting client was starting a big project right around the same time I was trying to buy a house. The bank was uncomfo

I got to experience this first hand. A consulting client was starting a big project right around the same time I was trying to buy a house. The bank was uncomfortable giving us a mortgage when our primary income was from self-employed consulting. The client hired me as an FTE, and almost immediately started completely ignoring my advice and putting me on projects that I a) thought were pretty misguided and b) were definitely not a good use of my skills. This, after 5 years of on-and-off engagement to do really great work on projects I have specific skills to address. It basically boiled down to “now that I’m a member of the engineering team, I’m expected to participate with the processes that are in place”. When I was a consultant, I was generally brought in to solve problems caused by those processes breaking down. Not sure why they couldn’t square that circle, but I went back to consulting 6 months later and retained them as a client, wherein they started taking my advice again and not throwing misguided projects at me.