Many automatically equate being an entrepreneur or an independent creative with freedom and working for the corporate world with being beholden to an endless, soulless rat race. I know that for a long time, I was guilty of this assumption myself. Recently, however, I started a job with a new group at a massive tech company. For the first time in almost five years I have a boss and for the first time in my life I’m working for a corporation.

What has struck me and surprised me about the experience is that I actually feel a far greater sense of freedom than I ever expected to. (more…)