[azasadny]

I'm going through these same decisions/options right now as I'm an IT guy at Ford. I do some IT work "on the side" and if I had 10 clients just like my largest client, I could make my "part-time" job my "full-time" job. I'm leaving 11 years at Ford and a promising career, but the US auto industry is gone and I don't want to stay here (at Ford) for the "death by one thousand paper cuts". I'm aggressively pursuing other opportunities right now... It's "scary" but then so is anything that's important!