{"id":447,"date":"2007-12-18T23:11:18","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T04:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinreams.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/18\/everyone-is-a-consultant\/"},"modified":"2007-12-18T23:11:18","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T04:11:18","slug":"everyone-is-a-consultant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"Everyone is a consultant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Penelope Trunk is predicting it: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.penelopetrunk.com\/2007\/12\/12\/the-end-of-work-as-we-know-it\/\">the end of consulting<\/a>. I agree. I call myself a &#8216;consultant&#8217; but I realized that all the work I&#8217;ve done in the last few years has been, in essence, &#8220;consulting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not surprised, either. It&#8217;s easier than ever to become an expert (<a href=\"http:\/\/wikipedia.org\/\">Wikipedia<\/a>, right?) and it&#8217;s especially easy to work from home (<a href=\"http:\/\/webworkerdaily.com\/\">Web Worker Daily<\/a> rocks!). In fact, I intend to work from home or a number of remote client locations for the next few weeks. Heck, I work for a Big Four and I use Toggl to track my time across clients, projects and many other things.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what I love about where I work. There&#8217;s a desire to be entrepreneurial, a leader in innovation. Our partner realizes we need to adapt and I strongly believe we&#8217;re all consulting for a variety of people (clients, colleagues, etc.). And once everyone is consulting, no one is consulting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penelope Trunk is predicting it: the end of consulting. I agree. I call myself a &#8216;consultant&#8217; but I realized that all the work I&#8217;ve done in the last few years has been, in essence, &#8220;consulting.&#8221; I&#8217;m not surprised, either. It&#8217;s easier than ever to become an expert (Wikipedia, right?) and it&#8217;s especially easy to work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-old"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}