Cam finds a way around the typical corporate grind...
Nerd By Northwest #194 – “Work Smarter, Not Harder”
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At my last "real job", I was told about a former employee who essentially did this... taking a primary function of his old job and creating a subcontracting company focused on doing just that thing. And that situation allowed him to get paid for task completion instead of being paid hourly and holding down a desk the rest of the time, thus freeing up much of his work week.
Is this situation common in government contracting? Probably not... at least not with subcontracting companies that small. But it is one of many examples of using outside-the-box thinking to get ahead... not by playing by the rules and doing what everyone else does, but by understanding and gaming the system to one's advantage. Or to paraphrase Ash, "making the system your bitch". 😉
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It seems contracting in some industries can be lucrative. I don't know what he was making, but I worked with a guy who flew over to England from Northern Ireland each week and was paying to rent a room and pay for airport parking at each end. That may have been more a matter of lack of suitable jobs nearer home. I'm sure others really milk companies.
The defense industry is probably the worst when it comes to contractors and wasting money (at least speaking for the US). With my last job, actual work was maybe 2 hours out of the day... the rest of the time was spent holding down a desk and doodling drawings like this. 😉