Right, this "freelancer" stuff needs another angle.

I own a small consulting company, so we fall under the "freelancer" model.

We have *many* ways of dealing with clients. Most come to us, some we approach. But we approach companies we want to work with or we think would benefit from our help.

We DO NOT work with companies that have annoyed us, screwed us over or ones where we dislike the working practices. (There is one HUGE consulting company we refuse to work with as they force their staff to work 60+ hour weeks and send them off on stress. A lot of my work is based around fixing work life balance etc so you would think this would be a good place to work.)

They pay really well - but I'm not exposing my colleagues or myself to that. The fact is that they pay lip service to what I do - and if I went there, they could use my presence to justify current behaviour ("look at the help we brought in! NOW WORK HARDER!") Do I really think the company wants to bring about the culture change required? (And this is EXACTLY what JB is talking about - a Culture change) No. So, in that case - you can be one voice shouting at the darkness, or you can go work somewhere else and be happy and fulfilled.

I did the same thing when I went solo. (Left Big Nasty Corp to form Small Happy Business) Life's too short to expend effort in areas where you either not wanted/appreciated/or disagree with.

I think it is better to be an exemplar of how you believe your job should be performed rather than toe the disagreeable corporate line.

As I don't project - I have no idea if any of this is applicable to JB's current situation, but I felt it could be some useful info.

So there's the "real" line, the Ultimate line, and now the Marvel Adventures line, from the people who cancelled Hidden Years because it was confusing readers?