Where Are the Resume Writers Going?

I know the resume writing industry has a lot of turnover, but c'mon!

I recently sent out a mailing (snail mail -- a postcard, in fact) to 50 resume writers. Within the last week, four of the postcards have been returned as "Not Deliverable as Addressed." The problem isn't the mailing list; it's that these businesses no longer exist. That's 10% of them!

I sent out an e-mail to 300 new contacts (added in the last year), and had more than 30 returned e-mails (granted, some of them were changes in e-mail address), but a couple were practitioners who "no longer practiced."

Is it the nature of the industry, that it's easy to get into, and just as easy to leave? I've talked to colleagues (some who had been in the business a long time, mind you) who got out to take full-time jobs, or to focus on a different kind of writing (technical writing, or magazine article writing). I know it can be difficult to make money, especially in the beginning.

A colleague of mine and I have been trying for the past couple of years to get more new resume writers involved in the business locally. There are more clients than we can handle, and it would be nice to be able to refer them to someone good. We found someone who fit that description in Lincoln (hi, Angie!), but no luck so far in Omaha. Interested in moving to the biggest city in Nebraska?