>> You're in the wrong field for job stability.

True to a point. Part of my problem, is that I'm pretty aggressive - which worked well for me as a consultant, but not so well as an employee. As an employee, I always manage to piss off some arrogant little snot of a know-nothing but prance around like a little Napoleon "project manager" who then makes it his mission in life to "get me". Once they settle into that mindset, it usually takes them about a year of maneuvering and slandering to everybody who will listen to them before the "layoff" comes. Ironically, they almost always pay themselves, for nearly everyone who "got me" were themselves dismissed within a year of my departure (usually because the projects I was working on go south violently the day I leave - always as a result of the "snit" underestimating how much RAW work I was really [and quietly I might add] doing for the organization).

Still - it wreaks havoc on the resume, and makes managerial references "problematic". The places I suffered the most from this were both hedge funds.

No surprise there. Being a TOTAL ASS is required to be a successful trader. At least in my experience ...