Macromedia has asked me to submit a proposal to do some contract work for them, but it has been made pretty clear that it won't lead to a full-time committment.

I'm pondering... should I spend my time on the short-term contract or should I continue to look full-time for a "real" job?

Just to put my "funk" into perspective:

"Instead of creating 510,000 jobs in 2003, as President Bush predicted, the Republican-led economy has suffered a net loss of 473,000 jobs so far this year... In the past 22 months just over one million Americans have lost their job. Added to the 1.78 million lost jobs during the seven-month recession, the period represents the largest sustained loss of jobs since the Great Depression."

http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/Read.asp?fn=df09292003.html