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See, I just don't understand this. Beginning of Highschool were the first of the deep Klein cuts, when I got out of post-secondary there was the dot-com bubble burst, and now you have the mortgage crisis.

I think the fact that schools were busy raising our self-esteem and not crushing our spirits is the major factor in why you have freelance mercenaries. The author also has to contend with the fact that tenured positions are now non-existent, and the mentality of grab everything while you can has set in.

When you break your back for someone else to take the glory and you get denied EI due to scheduling irregularities, it makes it a game and not work. Your star workers aren't going to want to gut through 3 or 4 years of mailroom living on the edge of being part of the next wave of cuts, when the guy that was at the bottom of the passing grade drives a Bimmer and pops his collar into work. Both maybe laid off, but the dude with the bimmer should probably have a larger investment pool.