[FooHentai]

Ultimately yes, as a contractor your continued employment in financially difficult times is going to be a hard sell. Of course, you could always take a permanent position for a time if that would give you more of a sense of security. Or, you could fall back on the additional savings you've been able to make as a contractor, that higher rem being the benefit of the hedge you were making in the first place.

That said, I've seen companies shed permies over contractors in difficult times, because if you form the view that said difficult times will stick around for a while, the permies look worse as aliability/drain on your projections than having contractors which, although they are higher cost, can be shed trivially. Depends on location though, areas with stronger protections against letting go of permanent employees are the ones where organisations see those same permies as more of a long-term liability. In right-to-work states, for example, it's just as easy to shed either group.