Anyone self employed?

Yep same here in SW MO. cant sell a ten dollar bill for five bucs and they still want to jew ya...lol...times are tough and you want to work you will do it cheaper or go home,so I am at home alot,kinda hard to work for 8-10 bucs an hr when you have truck/equipment/tools/insurance etc....so you have specialize in something or tag insurance jobs and even they are getting harder to deal with, I got out of new construction altogether for simple reason you will go broke quick. Small remodel jobs and handyman jobs or doing install work for Lowes/homedepot seems to be my ticket for now...getting to old for this game between the IRS and the cost of insurance/workers comp,operating expenses,license/bonds etc and laborers that are either drunks/crackheads or just plain nutty, so I just work myself now,and turn alot less money but more of it goes home with me with a whole lot less headaches and stress....fired myself last month but couldnt make it on unemployment so it's back to the grindstone...lol