> I can almost guarantee that you’re just at the wrong company.
The trick is finding a company that's not wrong.
Early-stage startups typically qualify, but they're also typically short-lived; they usually either go under or else grow into the same sort of "wrong company" one's trying to avoid.
A small business that's been around awhile, with a stable customer base and no ambitions for growth, is probably ideal - but good luck getting such a company to hire you. You might have better luck picking up multiple such companies as an independent consultant.
A different ideal (or so I've found) would be a company that's large but dysfunctional, or to be an "analyst" or somesuch in a department that's sufficiently large and autonomous to get away with having "shadow IT" (and a lax enough corporate IT department to not interfere).
The trick is finding a company that's not wrong.
Early-stage startups typically qualify, but they're also typically short-lived; they usually either go under or else grow into the same sort of "wrong company" one's trying to avoid.
A small business that's been around awhile, with a stable customer base and no ambitions for growth, is probably ideal - but good luck getting such a company to hire you. You might have better luck picking up multiple such companies as an independent consultant.
A different ideal (or so I've found) would be a company that's large but dysfunctional, or to be an "analyst" or somesuch in a department that's sufficiently large and autonomous to get away with having "shadow IT" (and a lax enough corporate IT department to not interfere).