Layoffs, shmayoffs! Getting laid off in 2001 was the best thing that ever happened to me. I couldn’t find a job so I decided to start marketing myself as an independent software consultant. I ended up doubling my income. Eight years later I’m still turning away lucrative projects because I’m just too busy to do them all. After I got up and running, I started helping other computer geeks like me start their own businesses. Then last year I wrote “Getting Started as an Independent Computer Consultant”. It’s based on my eight years of experience managing my own consulting business. It comes with a 75-minute instructional DVD featuring me. Afraid of being laid off? Read my book and watch my DVD and learn how to become successful on your own terms. There has never been a better time to start a consulting business. Why? Because the same companies that are reducing headcounts are having to hire contractors to support, maintain, and improve the systems that they rely on to run their day-to-day operations.

- Mitch Paioff

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