I am very skeptical about any statistics related to employment because it seems to all start from the premise that the government wants the number to appear muc

I am very skeptical about any statistics related to employment because it seems to all start from the premise that the government wants the number to appear much higher than it really is, so they define it in deceptive ways. Similarly with something like this Resignation I am skeptical about who they are including in these numbers. I doubt I am counted in any employment statistics, scraping by mainly on small intermittent contracts from Upwork or Reddit interspersed with attempts at bootstrapping startups, for most of the last 20 years or so. But that doesn't mean I don't work. Far from it. The last time I had a non-contracting (employed) role was in 1998.