Me, I wasn't counted until last month, though we have a number of self-employment sources, and add to this now my regular position, and we are doing way better than we were before the downturn. In fact, I have become two: We've had to hire someone to work our other business full time because we can't keep up with it. Things were bad for us, and we complained alot about it at the time, of course. But we're palpably better off now than we were then, turned something bad into something good because we would never have thought of starting the businesses we did, and now we have those AND a regular job. Pretty nifty.