I've got mixed feelings on this issue. For many years I always figured I could pimp myself as well as anyone else could and that the 'clauses' were outrageous. So I avoided such situations. Then hard times hit and I finally let one of the many knee-biters whore me out. Turned out to be the best thing I could have done. I'm now fully employed by an employer that wouldn't have even called me back for an interview, and at a pay scale that self-pimping would not have aquired.