we are all self employed, in the least we sell services sometimes they just get negotiated sometimes maintaining the same customer prob is that customer gets more demanding at the same price for the job, but instead of being good at negotiating these self employed submit to that one customer instead of walking away from the job, they become dependant on someone other than themselves and require securities. hence its our own insecurities that have them in bondage. the man paying for the job will always have power if the self employed wont walk away from the customer. no man has power over another man unless that man submits. thats where take this job and shove it comes to play. Everything else sounds good brother...