Chapter 12
Business
Introduction
This chapter is a bit like the Roman god, Janus. Janus was the gatekeeper of heaven and had two faces. One of Janus' faces looked forward and the other backward; his name survives in the month January – looking forward to the new year and backward to the year that has passed.
This chapter similarly has two faces: one looks outward, from the perspective of a developer to the business that this person finds themselves interacting with; the other looks inward, from the perspective of the business to the developer. To keep things exciting, the narrative changes between these positions more than once.
"But I'm self-employed," I hear some of you saying. You still engage in business activities. You might have to ...
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