[VaSteve]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

Steve, I was an Environmental, Health and Safety Consultant for about 22 of my 29 year (so far) career. You'll love getting out of it. I no longer write proposals, market for work, see every person I meet professionally as "fresh meat", I don't worry about billability, utilization, or billing clients. I work a full week, most every week, and honest to god, I feel like I'm on permanent vacation. I'm at a conference this week in Vegas, and I just walk by those booths manned by consultants. Man, I can't believe I used to do that. I too joined a former client (Disney) a little over five years ago and the time has flown by.

That's what I'm trying to get away from. I just wanna "work" and do good. Let these other guys kill themselves for this business. Maybe I'll never be in a Carerra GT, but non of the firm's partners are either.

I'm a little (lot?) nervous. I know that the pace will be different, but since it's a former client I kinda know what I'm getting into and one of my peers (who was also on that project) went there a month ago and really loves the difference. I think the people at my firm have a betting pool that I'll be back...I hope to outlast that.