Two spouses, both working in I/T as programmers for hire. One has mandatory PTO this weekend, the other mandatory overtime.
Such feast-and-famine contrasts point up one Dark Side aspect of being in the business of renting out skills/talent. Which is, of course, not news for anyone who works for her/himself and not The Man. But I doubt that the need to be as disciplined with one's cash flow as one is dedicated to one's craft figures into many day-dreams of ditching the day-job. A romance-killing thought, certainly. But not so bad as the image of having to re-shackle oneself to wage-slavery loaded with the debt from a failed business.
