Returning to the Dumpster Fire (Virtually)?

[CO-guy]

In my experience if you have enough to retire there is no monetary incentive that can make a bad situation tolerable. If you have FU money (what ever that might be for you). your patience level for corporate BS goes way down post retirement.

Hard to disagree with that statement. Fortunately, nearly all of what I do is remote and on my own time. In addition, my role is to prepare information for oversight, so what I do is little more than translational. For the 'dumpster fire' it's just a box they can check.

 

[Diogenes]

In a retirement-oriented milieu, it would be an indecorous argument to favor returning to a work-type of situation, especially one with "toxicity". Nevertheless, the sheer joy and luxury of not needing to work, accords one a breezy capacity to view both sides, to play-along while the playing is good, to peremptorily quit if the least bit goes awry. Why not give it a go?

 

[ICNTR]

Thanks for saving the “doggos”! Not only are you saving them but they will also be priceless to their new families. Might even return the favor and save some of us humans by providing love, meaning, and purpose to our lives. I know mine do!

 

[pacergal]

Good luck in your consulting job.
I went back on call, on my own terms, after Retired. Worked out well, until the BS bucket was full again.
Haven't looked back since.

 

[Lee94joyce]

I would have something in writing to indemnify myself if this goes further in the dumpster.

 

[RetMD21]

I would have something in writing to indemnify myself if this goes further in the dumpster.

I don't understand what that means

 

[joedila]

I'd cut my ties to this firm -- they don't appreciate you and they sound like a bunch of idiots. You will be better off.

 

[CO-guy]

Thanks for saving the “doggos”! Not only are you saving them but they will also be priceless to their new families. Might even return the favor and save some of us humans by providing love, meaning, and purpose to our lives. I know mine do!

I wish I could do more. If it were up to me, we'd have a heated shed for year-round whelping and puppy fostering, but my better-half has her limits.

 

[CO-guy]

I'd cut my ties to this firm -- they don't appreciate you and they sound like a bunch of idiots. You will be better off.

They don't and they are, but sometimes that's the case with clients when you're consulting.

My approach with consulting is to charge the fussy clients more, which is not an uncommon approach.

As far as risk, all money will be in escrow and deliverables are straightforward. (Not my first rodeo) So really, much as it feels like I'm going back to the dumpster fire, it's just a lucrative project for a "former" client.

 

[TickTock]

My approach with consulting is to charge the fussy clients more, which is not an uncommon approach.

Heh. I remember that from DWs stint at [redacted]. So-and-so client wants us? Their multiplier is X.