This was the plan when I quit Aligo after 3.5 years for a better offer.   More stable, more resources, bigger stakes where my skills could scale and I could be compensated accordingly.   I remember hesitating on the initial offer, and them coming back with 10% more.   I remember showing up on Day 1 with my hand in a cast a day after surgery for the displaced fracture I got snowboarding at Sunrise the previous weekend.   I’m kinda still stunned I haven’t lost my shit at least once over some ridiculous challenge and drummed myself out a job.   Somehow, some way, after starting as a corporate trainer for RightFAX in ’97 cause I taught myself how to fix my crashing install of Windows 3.1, now I sit in weekly brainstorming meetings with honchos and Directors, my main developer is one of the most expert Perl guys out there, I set my own schedule, and I take off early to ride National.   And it just doesn’t seem all that hard.   Someday I will move to a mountain town and work as a lifty, but today I’m happy to be fun-employed.