Once you go free, going back will never be.

If you must know, I've been party to an experiment recently.  No, nothing that has to do with cell generation or mutant power-harvesting (although that would've been way cool).  Just to test myself, I took on a friend's offer (or was it a challenge?) to rejoin the corporate world.
Yes... dear freelancers.  That, I did.

Oh, and did I mention that I came back to the fold as a junior?  Uh-huh.  I mean, if I went back to simply reclaim that crystal throne of power, then that wouldn't be much of an experience now, would it?

And so the methodological procedure commenced!

Week 1:  Subject came in calm, cool, and confident.  She knew her biz. 
Week 2:  Subject made waves.
Week 6:  Subject threw her first full blown professional tantrum.
Week 10:  Something reminded subject why she never wanted to go back in the first place.
Week 12:  Another something re-reminded subject why she never wanted to go back in the first place.
Week 14:  Yet another something re-re-reminded subject why she never wanted to go back in the first place.
Week 16:  Subject bailed out!

Ha!  That was short-lived.  But now we know that a few years in freelancing teaches you one valuable thing:  Money isn't everything.  Freedom is.  The rules, the punishments, the politics, the drama --things you left behind when you took the swan dive to independence-- were left behind for a good reason.  Sanity, happiness, your own time, and a cup of Joe in nyort-nyorts trump so-called 'security' all the time.

Hypothesis:  Once you go free, going back will never be.  Well... at least for me.


Disclaimer:  Depending on the control environment and the test subject's frame of mind, results of this experiment may vary.