Hey there. I appreciate your comments. It may very well be that I will end up doing contracting work like that. I had some good contracting work earlier this year that unfortunately went bad, and for whatever reason I wasn't able to find more before the money I had saved ran out. What the blog posts cover (did you read both?) is that I took this path because it was the only one left to me.

I'd love to know where these $1-2k per day iOS contract jobs are that you speak of, though :)