own boss. in one survey, nearly one-third of workers who quit started their own business. ominously for employers, in another survey, 95% of workers say they were thinking about quitting. >> i'm done with the cubicle. i'm done commuting. i'm done sitting in an office. >> reporter: professor tom smith studies the pandemic's labor market friends add can cae emory university's business school. >> maybe the looking craziness in the eye and coming up on the on the other end of it has made people reevaluate how much risk is actually involved. >> reporter: hustling in a crisis, folmar found pandemic prosperity-- more money, more time with his family, better life balance. >> i took this dream and ranth i and with it, i cured my family. >> reporter: with a paycheck he created, folmar can take this job...