Totally agree - I&#x27;ve contracted as an independent for about 8 years now, often with the same companies over and over, and I can honestly say I went into the office every day totally prepared for it to be my last and leave without a job. I have great, ongoing relationships with their employees and managers, I do well respected work and the projects have been generally very successful, but this is just the nature of the business. I see contractors in the same gig for years who let themselves become &quot;employees who get paid more&quot; and then are incredibly hurt when they don&#x27;t get renewed. Again - this is the life of a contractor.