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9. I've been contracting for 28 years with 10 months off for good behavior.

Seriously, I don't work for free. Period.

I remember a commercial from a bank that was advertising their home improvement loans on the radio. The voice of the contractor in the commercial (I think it might have been about a deck) said something eloquent, "I can build it fast, I can build it good, I can build it cheap. You get to pick which two of those you get."

Maybe I'm too cynical but a line from a 1975 movie that sticks with me: "Well, the fact is, what I do is not a bad occupation. Someone is always willing to pay." He was an assassin.

Not a line of work I recommend. In terms of work available be careful that your current struggle to meet unrealistic productivity expectations doesn't blind you to better positions that you might find.

I mostly deal only with shops that I know well. I sometimes look at contract engineer weekly (ceweekly/cjhunter). Good luck.