You let me know of any client out there that will "pre-pay".  I'd like to be on their payroll.  This is a very cut throat, competive business.  If they can't pay you, they'll just move on to the next "dummy" searcher, who is looking for work.  Our business procedure has never changed.  We do the work, then I bill you every 2 weeks.  No one else has a problem with it.  Funny thing is, after posting this notice, I got a call from him saying he would begin to pay us in the beginning of March.  Now, I'm not holding my breath, but every other time he's called and said he would pay us something, he has.  Don't get me wrong, Lee is a very nice guy, who maybe just fell on hard times when business got slow, but it's hard getting money from him.