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There is a huge glut of MBAs in the Detroit area and there has been for quite a while. As I noted earlier, my MBA ex-husband noted probably 8 or 9 years ago that companies were promoting JDs into business executive positions over MBAs.
In this area, a large number of IT people, especially programmers, are contractors. They usually work through a contracting agency though, not independently. Many times, they get hired in as a contractor first and if they are good, then they get hired as a direct full time employee. Independent contractors are usually people who are well established as experts in the field (professors, former CIOs, etc.). I'm trying to avoid the contractor world because I couldn't stand knowing that I had a job only for 6 months or a year and then would be looking for work again. Contractor is a complicated word in IT because a lot of companies outsource their IT so technically those people are contractors but they are full time W-2 with benefits contractors.
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