consulting

I moved from traditional employment to full-time Drupal indy consultant at the end of last year. I've learned the same initial lessons everyone has. Working for oneself is great. Specializing in Drupal is fun, rewarding and also great. Taking over responsibility for roles such as tech writer and project manager is not so fun, rewarding or great. Dealing directly with a client rather than with a tech lead, or at least a PM, is a complicated and messy business that has more to do with people skills and mind reading than with programming or design. I've also learned (the hard way) that blindly trusting clients and forgoing all of the hassle of agreements, policies and procedures is most definitely a bad idea.