Secure jobs are a blessing and a curse. The latter happens when they want you to stay indefinitely and think they own you.
I'm an independent contractor and I'm very lucky in that my services are sought after. I'm an expert in a suitably esoteric yet central set of standards. In practical terms it means that I can tell a client to fuck off, these days, if they are being stupid enough. Also in practical terms, I mostly never do because I like my job and I do sympathise with their plight.
You have not been home enough to even break in your new (months old) subwoofer lately.
I have had to "fire" clients before. I then go back to the basic reasons for doing business together if they want continued service. Policies first, then we try again.
On the contrary, I work from home and my subwoofer is used daily.
It's fickin' awesome. The musicality alone, it's amazing. The size of my system is just perfect. The speakers are quite small, as is the sub, and the system is not in any way out of the ordinary.
But together, they bring a balance almost unheard of.
It's all fed from a laptop, but via a hi-def player and DAC, so nothing passes through the laptop's rubbish sound card, and again the setup is beyond belief. The balance is very, very precise, which is practically unheard of when producing sounds from a laptop. It's all stunningly good.
It's almost like an analogue system. For a daily driver, it's amazing.
