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I was listening the other day to some podcasts from freelanceswitch.com and one of the topics they covered there was a mailbag entry where some guy lost his business by bankruptcy because of a deal that he thought it was great for his business, and in the end the people he worked for decided not to pay him and claim to try to sue them because they didn't care for.

Another example that I got came from a fictional ground from The adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Engineer's Thumb, a story from the 1880's where a guy lost a thumb because he went for a deal that felt suspicious but the money he was promised sounded too good to pass.

In both example one true, one fictional that is more than a century old, which should make you consider that this behavior is nothing new, where you are drawn to the high paycheck, were you are not taking in consideration the risks that you might go through is a mistake that could costs you your job, and sometimes even your likelihood.

Practical lesson: always take care to really study what offer you might take, because if something looks and sounds too good, it might be just that, and it might be better to go for something smaller that feels more at home than something that would promise big bucks but might deliver in the end just a big headache.