I’d far rather work in an environment that required and enabled me to get shit done than the opposite. My last W-2 job required a quarter-long planning period a

I’d far rather work in an environment that required and enabled me to get shit done than the opposite. My last W-2 job required a quarter-long planning period and then I had to go from team to team pleading my case and begging them not to stone wall me. Each time requiring a specially tailored slide deck, going behind the scenes to ask what questions _that one guy_ is going to try and derail us with so I could have an answer ready, and often follow up with a second or third meeting to address concerns of the DBA team on what effect using a WHERE clause will have.