This is more or less the chief reason for me to work this way. When my daughter was younger I would take summers off, to spend more time with her. Now that sh

This is more or less the chief reason for me to work this way. When my daughter was younger I would take summers off, to spend more time with her. Now that she's older, and not so interested in spending all day with her dad (sniff, but I think I was the same way at her age), I continue to do it because it gives me several months per year off, and also results in greater variability in what I'm working on. If I just quit my job once or twice a year, after being hired as a "permanent" employee, after a while my resume would start to look like a warning sign. Why can't this guy keep a job? But as a contractor, it's normal and expected.