The engineer is now faced with two options: to go into another line of business or to look for a new way to combat the offshore competition. His choice was to make a contractual arrangement with a few of his employees to operate as contractors to the firm. They would, as entrepreneurs, provide him with competitively priced out-services, whether on a 24-hour service or not. Rather than keeping an in-house service for engineering, advertising or marketing, corporations are beginning turn to external agencies to supply them with services on an as-needed basis