Sacked, bored and lacking ambition? Why not apply for a freelance consulting role?

Being freelance, no doubt about it has its upsides. The 3 most important have to do with money

you simply make more of it.

And the added risk? Well, I’ve provided services to the financial industry for the better part of 8 years for Deutsche Bank in Germany, for Commezbank and since 30 months for ABN AMRO in Amsterdam. And guess what – I’ve seen more then one round of “headcount reduction” or “Kosteninitiative” but it was always the expensive freelancers that survived unharmed, internals getting their pink slips. And still to act as if riding on a razors edge, everybody believing? Priceless. But externals are by and large more competent and focused on the customers needs? Bull,

I’ve seen retarded morons on the roll in this business, more than I care to and can count, some of them more thank once.

My best guess regarding the real reasons for this behaviour has to do with psychology and the notorious tendency of us – the human species – to justify the our decisions and/or assumptions. Based on that mindset, believe me, the performance of more expensive staff will steadily improve. Its like being a developer, having just spent 6 interesting hours optimizing hell out of some arcane piece of sh.., hmmm, code. Believe me, next time you check on the optimized section you WILL perceive significant gains. Everybody tried the same stunt with carefully instrumented code? Surprise, surprise. So don’t hesitate, take buzzwording and bullshitting lessons, learn legalese.

c u l8er, in the cubicle next to me