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Drew’s recently acquired freelance status…

Well, I haven’t posted on this topic yet but a couple months ago, my employer made some what some might call trendy, yet I called income-reducing, decision to cut a significant percentage of its workforce.

Though I was cut, I don’t consider myself a victim of any larger trend. I believe my former employer failed to more aggressively capture a growing segment in the market still hungry for professional services like I provide.

News of all the layoffs in many industries grabs all the headlines and to be sure, there’s a lot of scaling back being done. Fortunately, there are segments who will weather the storm and some who are actually growing right now. To be fair, some of these are growing not in spite of the downturn but because of it. However, there are other areas that are just not as affected by large labor cutbacks or dips in stock values.

One area that continues to grow is that of companies trying to improve their business efficiencies. Even those who must cut jobs to appease investors, need more efficient back-office tools to get work done even more efficiently since they now have fewer staff.

We’ll start to see the economy turning around once the media has had its fill of doom-and-gloom… or some new distraction surfaces to get consumers spending again.

Since I’m doing freelance work but keeping one eye on the job market at the same time, I’m seeing more and more confirmation of my hunch that there are places to go where you can contribute value and be compensated for it, you just have to look a little harder.

Indeed article here.

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