[jasonkester]

Sounds like you weren't ever actually a contractor.

There are two types of position that employers describe as "Contractor". The first is the type described in the article, where you bring in a guy for a short term and pay him roughly double what you'd pay a regular dev. The second type is where you bring in a guy, pay him the equivilent of a regular dev salary, but as an hourly rate, and don't give him any benefits.

This second type has a more common name: "Being taken advangage of."

Sounds like that's the type of "contracting" you were doing. Congrats on getting out of it.