[NickRandom]

1a. Don't Go out on a limb, now is not the time to scatch that itch. 1b. Do batten down the hatches in any and every way you can.

2. I was a self-employed freelance consultant. I survived by being good-ish at what I did. What got me through it? The alternatives.

3a. Boom-and-Bust are cyclic. 3b. The rich get richer each time the music stops. 3c. That which is old becomes new again. 3d. Always know how to fix something because when times are bad the rich will either want something fixed or want some new shiny thing installed. Times are seldom tight for the rich (or rather they tend to be the last to suffer before 'something is done about it')