Omg this post hits close to home (or home being built). Here’s one more fun one: apparently, in the county where I’m building, there’s a pretty common career path: county appointed or elected officials who help to set the unnecessarily arcane ordinances typically spend 10-15 years working for the local government and then immediately go into lucrative consulting for developers because 1) they have the network of approvers across county offices and 2) they’re the only ones who truly understand the regulations because they’re the ones who wrote them! They’re actually incentivized to weave a complicated web of regulations so that they can later untangle them in the private sector. Fun times!
Thanks for writing out your story— Can we please catch up sometime soon?
Omg this post hits close to home (or home being built). Here’s one more fun one: apparently, in the county where I’m building, there’s a pretty common career path: county appointed or elected officials who help to set the unnecessarily arcane ordinances typically spend 10-15 years working for the local government and then immediately go into lucrative consulting for developers because 1) they have the network of approvers across county offices and 2) they’re the only ones who truly understand the regulations because they’re the ones who wrote them! They’re actually incentivized to weave a complicated web of regulations so that they can later untangle them in the private sector. Fun times!
Thanks for writing out your story— Can we please catch up sometime soon?