Freedom to have a nap or work odd hours or work remotely. Freedom to wear the clothes you want. Freedom to leave your google job in the morning create a startup in the afternoon and get funded during dinner and have the company fold before last call.

You have the freedom to start a side project and find success or fail. You have the freedom to give something back to the open source community.

At some smaller places you can eat lunch with the owner beat them at pool and have a laugh over a beer on some sunny friday afternoon.

All things not possible working at gs because you work 16 hour days. The goal is to try to get a leg up on someone else because everything is based on the annual bonus.

To get a similarly paying job soon without changing location.

non-competes for one