Self-Employment on the Decline

[John Kawakami]

>To listen to formerly self-employed workers, there also seem to be 
reasons to move to an established company that have nothing to do 
with economics. At a time when people have less time to spend with 
their neighbors or in civic and recreational groups, these workers 
say that a traditional office - despite all of its problems - has 
become one of the few places to find a community....

That's only because everyone is working all the damn time!  Since 
people are working, they can't make community.

The vicious cycle has to end sometime, and it may be during a period 
of slow growth, like we're going into now.

House prices in LA seem to be flagging.  That's a sign of something.

If you work for a nonprofit, this might be a good time to put out 
feelers for dotcommers (especially IT people) who are getting laid 
off.  They might not want to go through (another) round of layoffs, 
and might want to take a soft landing at a nice place.

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John Kawakami
johnk at cyberjava.com, johnk at firstlook.com