I am in a similar situation although lately I have been forced to become a freelancer on the side as well. I was forced into entrepreneurship for the same reas

I am in a similar situation although lately I have been forced to become a freelancer on the side as well. I was forced into entrepreneurship for the same reasons cited. Being burnt out from past jobs and no longer being able to find work, where software developers were treated like laboureurs, ready to be tossed out at a moment's notice when they can no longer perform well due to the excruciating hours already exploited thanks to the political party who protect nurses and plumbers but not software developers who obviously can freely negotiate their wage in the free market that they keep fantasizing about and telling people so they can get the votes, that employers will not exploit the sparce job space in BC and that somehow raising the living cost is more important than retaining the tech industry which is slowly bleeding talent to other provinces or United States. It's a shite state of affairs but I'm far from just giving up. I don't need to be holding a nine to five just to pay the bills. We developers have technical skills that needs to be treated with respsect and if one cannot find a fair open and free market without government interference, one must find it on the internet and rest of the world where it operates more efficiently.