--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > > You're lucky at your age a company will hire you. In the > US you would be considered "over the hill" regardless of > how good you are. Hell, you would be "over the hill" if > you were even 20 years younger. That's how screwed up > jobs are in the US. They're rather hire someone cheap with > 5 years of experience than someone with 6 times even though > in the long run it saves money because the person with 5 > years experience might take 3 times as long to do the > project or screw it up entirely.
I understand. The client would not be able to hire me as an employee, because the mandatory retirement age in France would forbid it. But as a consultant I'm fine. Go figure. I also come with a track record that the client values, because the project is so high-profile. I have a proven history of having a Protestant Work Ethic in a country that does not necessarily value them. I simply don't miss project deadlines; never have, in my entire career, and never will, even if I have to invest double the hours they're paying me for to achieve that. Plus, this is a team on which I will be the senior person, working with a number of less experienced people and at least one intern, so they're hoping I'll provide a bit of leadership. And *without* having to be a project leader myself, which is of interest to me, because I've been there done that with that, and I'm a really shitty manager. I'm best as a "hired gun" and as an advisor, and in this gig I'll get to be both, without having to get bogged down in endless meetings and red tape and bureaucracy. All good, as dem Chrisschuns say. :-)
