>>8099209
>I may been less of a puppet when I was a developer but I felt like a prostitute, so it's definitely an improvement
This statement lies a bit on the absurd side for me, if by having a skill and providing that skill as a service for the clients of a company means you're a prostitute, the commonality lying in the "service-providing" part, then by definition is everyone is a prostitute and you'll still be a prostitute once you become a cop which effectively a worker that provides security and justice, right?
If the above statement still holds ground with you then I have a question, would you still feel the same if you'd sell your skill as a service directly to a client instead of to a corpo? Or what if you'd develop a product to sell directly to an end user? I have no idea in which industry you activate but let's say you're a game dev for a corpo, would it help if you'd sell your own game to the consumer instead?
Either way, none of this is meant as an attack to your own purpose, that's between you and your maker.