[js1138]

That's me. Laid off by 911, unemployed consultant ever since. If I weren't such an old introverted geek, I would be on my way to being rich. For computer people, there thousands of small businesses drowning in computer problems. There just aren't any large, fat companies offering security and benefits right now.

[jwalsh07]

I've been a contractor my entire adult life. Hop in, the waters fine.

[luvbach1]

There just aren't any large, fat companies offering security and benefits right now.

Right you are. And there certainly won't be more under the 'Rats. What there is likely be, and this is a prediction since the Dims have not yet unveiled it, is a Work Projects-Administration (circa-1933) make-work program. Free market solutions are not in Dems' bag.