I've been tempted several times to form the League of Extraordinary Gentlepersons or something similar. You broke it, we fix it.
Making a corporate structure for something like this hard, I came up with a model a couple of years ago called 'The Modular Company' but the bookkeeping is a nightmare if you want it to be fair.
Still, I keep coming back to it and one of these days, who knows...
Anyway - I would be interested in any thoughts or traps to avoid - if indeed we are talking about the same structures.
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Then in a way you do get paid (eventually, I hope...).
> Yeah, maybe just consulting?
That's one way to keep it simple.
But there has to be a better way, especially because the nicest flowers grow at the edge of the abyss.
I leave the process management stuff up to other folks, they're better salespeople than I am. They get paid to beat other people into submission; I get paid to beat servers into submission. :-) (Though not in Jacques' or Rachel's league.)
Perhaps some sort of league would solve some of the problems in doing that sort of work. E.g., the burstiness, the sudden need for specialized skills, the pipeline issues.