How to keep contacts on iPhone w/out sync?

Hi, I am new to iPhone.
I set up a Microsoft Exchange account on the iPhone for my work email, via Entourage. I also imported my (all personal) contacts from my previous SIM card.
Upon Sync, this loaded all my personal contacts into the "Contacts" folder in my work Exchange account. So now all my private information is on the server at my job, right? I really don't like this. Especially if I lose my job... will I be then unable to have my personal contacts on my iPhone because I don't have access to the company server?!
I am thoroughly confused. Please, someone... how do I go about keeping my personal information on my iPhone without it being held on my employer's server? From all I've read, contacts are not stored on the iPhone and are only available via Sync. Seems the only place it will sync from is Exchange or Mobile Me (which I can't afford). And you're only allowed one Exchange account. If that's really the case, I'll probably have to ditch the iPhone idea.
Thanks!

OK try this but it assumes you have access to your work PC and all your contacts are on the work PC.
It also assumes you have iTunes on your work PC, if you don't this won't work.
1. delete the exchange account on iPhone.
2. sync locally to your work pc
3. sync locally to your home pc
4. remake the exchange account on iPhone
Now you have a back up of all the contacts at home, and can use that incase you leave your current employer. You'll just need to repeat this every so often to make backups.
If you don't have iTunes on the work PC and all your contacts are now on the work PC then you could just export your contacts as a CSV (or something which can be imported into Entourage) from your Work PC. Or send contacts as vCards to your Home PC email to get a backup at home. When you make a new contact you'll just have to remember to either send a vCard to your home account or make a new CSV backup.
However! Exchange support is coming to Snow Leopard in September and this may solve all this. It needs Exchange server 2007 to work so if your work is using that you could be OK.
There are other solutions like Sync-Em which maybe worth looking at, but it will cost ya .
Personally I have the dilema but I just maintain my contacts on my iPhone and sync locally. It means you can't access your work's global address book, but for me this isn't a problem.

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