Welcome to "at will" employment. Besides some very specific exceptions, including race, gender, etc., employers are free to fire you for any reason or for no reason. Similarly, you are free to quit for any reason or no reason.

That's why we need reform of the Fair Labor Standards Act to do a number of things including, but not limited to the following:

1. Abolish "At-will" employment and replace it with "Just Cause". This will bring the US in line with the rest of the developed world.

2. Implement working time restrictions similar to the European Working Time Directive for both exempt, and non-exempt employees.

We have been in a race to the bottom with regard to labor law over the last 30 years.

I'm amazed that the apparent "high skilled professionals" are satisfied with such vague conditions under which they sell themselves. It doesn't sound professional at all not having the limits and not organizing the protection of the profession. Please excuse me, that's how it appears in some European countries where what the rights are protected by the organizations of professionals (or even workers) and at the latest level by the laws.