Nailed it. Pay them well, treat them well, and let them do their jobs. If a company could only do 2 of those 3 for me, my expectations for those 2 would be thr

Nailed it. Pay them well, treat them well, and let them do their jobs. If a company could only do 2 of those 3 for me, my expectations for those 2 would be through the roof: - Pay sucks? I need to feel like the most wanted person in the world and have free rein. - Management sucks? I better be getting rich from this, and I’m working on what I want to work on. - I’m going to be micromanaged? Hey, let’s talk about contractor pay, and the CEO needs to name a kid after me. If a company does all 3 things reasonably well, I’m your guy. 2 of 3, they’ll need to make up for the missing bit. Only have 1 of the 3? No way. (Miss me with any “you sound like a prima donna” nonsense. I don’t have crazy high expectations of those things. I do have a reasonable baseline though. I don’t work for free, I don’t work for jerks, and I don’t work where I can’t have freedom to do my best job for the person paying me.)