Same experience. I have turned $100k-300k contracting projects into multimillion dollar successes in a short time. But those ones had a good business plan, an

Same experience. I have turned $100k-300k contracting projects into multimillion dollar successes in a short time. But those ones had a good business plan, and were hands-off on technical matters because they were semi-technical themselves. These successful projects are the ones you feel good about, and the ones to put on the resume. The other type, where they give you a lot of money to "do what we say", but don't have good ideas...they're unsatisfying. The work feels pointless because it's not going anywhere. It's weak on the resume, the client isn't ongoing after it fails, you usually don't get references out of it. If you're short on money then the second type is fine, but you try to build toward only taking the first type of work. (I believe this applies to employment, too.)