I've been doing this 9 years too. I have days where I still earn really well, then other days where it's just dead for hours on end. I never remember it being quite so variable before. I guess variable and unpredictable. It's always been somewhat so, we all know that, but it feels like the unpredictability and the waves and troughs have gotten way more amplified. I have hope it'll eventually return to how things were before though.
I am getting a lot of low ball offers and guys trying to exploit more so than normal, but they are still getting the same hard No's for me. Definitely seems like there are more that way right now, which is irritating. It does make me appreciate my other guys that much more though