This is really THE BEST!!!

You are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! It is "riskier" to think that a corporation will keep you. When I did my first career as a news broadcaster, I was fired twice over differing ideas with two bosses (I'm too unique to fit in to a corporate environment). I loved news broadcasting, but having a secure job in that field is like winning the lottery. Breaking in isn't that hard — staying at a place is.

I then made the mistake of going to law school, not believing I'd make 150 K, but thinking I'd probably make 40 K with a six month job search. Wrong. 1 in 4 law school graduates is fortunate enough to do that. I did get such a job, but lost it, again due to being too creative and different to fit into a corporate environment.

After wasting thousands on law school and getting fired by a firm and told by a boss at a charity internship that my work as an attorney was alarmingly bad, I started my own law practice accidentally helping with friends' case I felt sorry for. I was a lot more confident because I had some skill set and ideas on how to solve their problems and they looked up to me. I took on 7 friends' cases just for fun while I would look for a job again.

Within a month, I realized I WAS running my own law practice — I just needed more customers and marketing. Disregarding the establishment advice of the babyboom generation to work for an employer and realize I was a bad person for being fired, I rebelled and took the "risk" of starting my own business. My career counselor at NIU would be so ashamed of me. To his extreme disappointment, I have not been a walking disaster.

During the worst economy since the 1930s, my first year in business, I grossed more than I made at any job professional or not in my adult life.

Risking the emotional abuse of a corporation and putting all your eggs in one client's (the boss's) basket is more financially risky than investing my services in 100 clients who are ordinary people. If one customer doesn't like me, I lose 1/100th of my income, not 100 percent if my corporate boss doesn't like the color of my eyes and lets me go. Not everyone likes my work, but I feel I've achieved more than fair results 80 to 90 percent of the time in court.

The people I work for now look up to me as their hero — all of my corporate bosses in journalism and law viewed me as a suspect making sure I wasn't wasting the money they paid me.

The baby boom idea that working for a corporation your entire life is the way to go is so outdated and unrealistic in this economy. It is FAR more risky to work for a corporation. You're investing ALL your services and potential income in ONE person/organization.

I'd rather have 100 clients paying me a bit of money coming and going. Its a far more stable life.