If there’s one constant through my independent consulting journey, it’s that the road ahead is full of surprises. At the end of my last reflection

3,573 Days On The Road

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2024-09-26 19:00:04

If there’s one constant through my independent consulting journey, it’s that the road ahead is full of surprises. At the end of my last reflections 9 years on the road, I wrote:

October 24th, 2014 I quit my job at Google and went out on my own. Over the next decade I worked with over 45 clients large and small all over the world. On August 5th, 2024 I took a job. So this is a special off-season “on the road” update and likely the last of these posts for a while.

This series is called on the road because being an independent consultant for me felt a lot like being on a long road trip. Untethered from a stable home, with the open road ahead - the wind in your hair, but also with a feeling of loneliness, of always moving on, of always having to pack up and get back in the car, get back on the road and look for the next place to sleep.

“because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars…” ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road