Choose your partners and serve your stakeholders wisely. The worst are those that expect everything for free and go ballistic if you don’t embrace their ideology to their exacting detail. If you don’t have a core conviction for your endeavour, then you are just working for someone else.
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You are working for someone else, in whole or in part, if that someone else can influence the direction your work is taking.
That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it is a thing.