So, in order to save money lots of big corporations are downsizing.  The trouble is, how do you downsize when you're a one man show?  I mean, my meager business is mostly self-downsizing since when I don't have gigs I just don't hire freelancers and when I have low/no paying gigs I use talent willing to work inside of those parameters.
But what about the day to day?  When the business can't support itself, but you want to keep it alive the money has to come from somewhere.  "Cutting my workforce" really means not spending all of my time on trying to make things happen here and going off and earning money at...>>gulp<<....a normal job.
I've had them before and I knew I'd need one soon to feed the beast that will be my flight schooling, but now is not the time to need to look for a job.  Especially a disposable job. 

We all know what that is.  It's the job we're willing to do because the economy sucks, but we'll want to leave it the moment we can.  Employers know it too.  They can see it in your eyes, hear it in your answers and smell it on you. 
That's a strike against me right off the bat.  To make it worse, lots of people want jobs like that right now.  Not just H.S kids who are bad risks anyway, but college educated adults with good work histories who have just been hit by hard times.  And, if I don't really, really need it, should I be taking a job like that away from someone else?
Well, my new temporary assistant just arrived.  I've got to go show her how to use some software.  So much for cutting the workforce.  Guess I'll need a second job so I can pay her on time.