[MrNatural]

..but do I detect a difficulty with uncertainty..

Actually, one could make a case that that was your problem. Your refusal to see there can be more wrong here than
just not having the spirit of independance, or whatever, tells me that you don't want to have to live in a world that
can leave you stranded without a livelihood in spite of all your efforts.

The certainty you cling to is that you will always be OK because you are "open to possiblities"

[Lazamataz]

Ease down, soldiers. :o) Garbanzo is no Agamemnon. I've dealt with him before, he's a reasonable fellow. Remember, not too long ago, I, too, was a Free Trader. It took this new offshoring phenomenon and the good arguments of fellow freepers -- plus a little research -- to finally understand that I might have been wrong all along.

If people had gotten personal and crappy with me, I might not have been as receptive to the idea that I had been wrong.