Q: When I left my job to start my own small business, I thought I had left the world of bad bosses behind. I do a lot of freelance work now, but what I have found is that now instead one just one, I have four! Working for yourself isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be, Mr. Strauss. — Anita
A: Though there is very little good that can be said about the Not-So-Great Recession (2007-2009), one upside was that not a few laid-off people decided to go their own way, start their own gigs and came to realize that they might be better off without that lousy job and crazy boss.
