It's gettin nasty out there, I'm self employed, established over 30 years, my phones stopped ringing in early august & never really started back up, sent out 9 or 10 estimates in sept, got one phone call with questions yesterday, guess thats at least hope i'll get the job, not a really big one but it will buy me another week or two, last time it was this bad was the early 90's but I think this time it will be worse & last longer.
No unemployment for me, I have to tough it out. there was a 5 or 6 week period I didn't even have a service call , now thats SLOW!
had two friends call me asking for work, could only help one with a few days on the only big job so far this winter that I started a week or two ago, maybe another 6 or 7 working days there & it's back to nothing to do.
I always keep an emergency fund, but at this rate it won't last long, can only hope for things to turn around soon. Rich.