I can certainly feel what you mean, it's where those who will take on anything to get a bigger car congregate in these parts. But it's actually not that bad I think, deployments are not "the temp guy in an in-house team" but projects with a presumably not too difficult buyer: the customer-side person you are working with doesn't have too much skin in the game. Realistic expectations and all that. One of the more graspeable downsides I think (never worked that way, but went though the hiring process once) is that those state clients seem to never outsource a complete project, but insist on keeping projects neutral by staffing them from as many different consultancies as possible, which means that you'll only ever work with people who are nominally your competitors.
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