Yeah corporate consultancies are great. Rates are good. Only have to search for new projects when you feel like it. Time for freelancing on the side. Takes a l

Yeah corporate consultancies are great. Rates are good. Only have to search for new projects when you feel like it. Time for freelancing on the side. Takes a little time to adjust to the varying paces of diff corps (some real slow, some real fast). But yeah if mine were remote, I would be in heaven. But there are so many enterprise Java-haters in the world now... won't sit well with them. Rubbed me the wrong way at first cuz I was coming from RoR & open source stuff to enterprise package software. When I realized that "front-end dev" meant not touching the codebase outside of HTML mocks & javascript POCs, I got really annoyed. But I took a little mental vacation, got more involved in solving implementation difficulties, then the project ended & because of the coding prowess I displayed I got moved to full-stack feature upgrade/maintanenance, and started a new project as a web service developer (never done it) based on managerial faith alone. I think a lot of these job choices just have to do with delayed/immediate gratification. Corporate is delayed, comes in the form of eventual big $$ or leverage to get into a real interesting position elsewhere. Startup/freelance is open-source fast-paced immediate gratification but poses its own set of problems. In my experience the open source dev work I've done is more of a technical feat, but the discipline required for Java web services is making my mind sharp in a way that RoR wasn't. In a strange sense, there is less action but more discipline.