It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.
I'm like this mercenary actor going from show to show - people love to hire me, but then don't want me around much.
Some day I shall write a novel and call it 'A Walking Tour in the Congo' or 'Thrills and Spills in Aeronautics'; but I keep this type of title as a last & mercenary resort.
Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers.
I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter.
I went out to the desert where Cleopatra camped out with her mercenary army. It's a desolate outpost. Nothing has changed since her day. You realize how far she had to travel. Not only is it a good 150 miles against the current, you can't take a ship.
A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.
Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already.
I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.
Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.