[PaulHoule]

Myself I've had three jobs that lasted more than a year and one of those was a "layoff" where the organization was facing an internal crisis, the other one I left because I felt unheard and a startup was going to pay me almost 2x what I was making to work on the kind of stuff I was doing side projects of.

I spent some time working as a consultant and also pitching an idea for an intelligent data transformation system.

I worked at a lot of companies that were unstable (e.g. startup that is just plain unstable, long standing companies that were breaking under the load of tech debt) or had lots of free junk food but no health insurance or a had a boss who had previously supervised both Dave Cutler and Linus Torvalds and had a lot of experience being the last manager to turn off the lights (DEC and Transmeta) but he fell down the stairs getting on a plane and was disabled and mean afterwards. In those cases usually I quit, once I got fired.

But really right now there is a lot of instability in startup land and I hear other people are having your problem.

[cgb223]

I appreciate the empathy and the context. It definitely helps.

> I spent some time working as a consultant

Did you consult on your own or work with a company? If you were on your own, how did you find clients? I've got a business entity ready to go and am heading to meetups to try and network. What else should I be doing?