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I'm at the opposite end of my career, and I'm doing it because I don't
need or want to work full time anymore but growing tomatoes and planning
the layout for my mini-orchard isn't quite enough activity for me yet.
And a little spare cash to actually pay for the trees isn't so bad, either.
I'm concentrating on small firms that haven't ever had a writer and may
never have enough work to hire one full time. A few years back I did a
year at one of those big corps that had fired en masse and replaced with
contractors, and I don't ever want to do that again if I can avoid it.
Not because it was a bad gig for me, but because it was a real downer
working with the remaining direct hire employees and seeing how bad
their morale was. Only take a contract like that if you're really hard
up or you're the kind of person who enjoys watching starving people in a
famine zone trying to survive by eating grass,
Gene Kim-Eng
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