Outta contracting, back to consulting

Work completely dried up for me in concrete construction. Around here subdivisions were cut in with utilities and streets and no homes built, commercial jobs were halted- I still pass by a partially completed hotel I bid on 2 years ago, houses stopped partially built....

I took a job 3 months ago, back doing CMT, engineering, & inspections etc. We do mostly state gov't jobs. As a contractor, I never had the capital to chase this work, or survive.

I know sooo many trade guys that disappeared, or are in desperate straits. How do you guys get by? I have an engineering background, and was lucky enough to have contacts to go back into it.