I do work with clients, every day, often times remotely (my office is at a co-op, almost never on premises).

> I honestly can't think of a reason to attend GA. It's like the anti hustler attitude.

I can see where you're coming from with that statement.

> Everything prettily packaged in a nice little box to be "an epic programmer!"

That might represent some people's attitudes on going into and coming out of something like GA; it doesn't represent mine. I tried to convey that in my original reply, but I might not have done as good a job as I had hoped.

>but I would like the benefit of having someone outside of myself and my work stand behind my resume

Well it looks like you already solved that then.