I've mixed feelings on the issue. Having been bumped from small VAR to small VAR as they moved or went under, then bombing badly with my own consulting business (I'm no business man), and for the first time in 10 years having a paycheck come from one place for 3 straight years, I find myself torn on the issue.

The fact that I had a decade of military service gave me plenty of expirience in giving up my own personality, but it didn't quite prepare me to give up my brain and my hobbies. I can't say that my employer was ambiguous about the terms of employment (which I give them credit for). It was clear that part of the price was that my work was theirs no matter when, what, or where that work was. When you raise 3 kids a steady paycheck means a stable life for them.

I think it will take a few years of realization before the tide swings back toward the rights of the employed, but until then, steady pay has to be the decisive factor in my life, which is a shame but in my small world the needs of the many (the kids) are bigger than the needs of the one.

I just hope I live long enough to see the first global IT strike ;>