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There is a lot of work. You are just looking for the wrong type.

• josefresco 11y ago
  And they're at a conference! Conferences are luxuries for those looking to network, expand their skills and re-ignite passion. While some sales are made, conference goers should be hitting the pavement looking or new work, not complaining that no big business will hire them freelance anymore.
• sarahparmenter 11y ago
  There is, but it appears to be harder than ever for newbies to get hold of it.
  • whorleater 11y ago
    Isn't that because that entire area of work (Wordpress blogs/basic websites/basic webfronts/etc) has been supplanted by Squarespace and all? Web documentation and tools have also gotten vastly better in the past few years, thereby allowing more people to get into the web industry, which then leads to a glut of supply while demand remains the same. I can hammer out a semi-functional webapp in a weekend now with backend in Meteor with a UI in React, whereas if I wanted to do this ~5 years ago I probably would've been stuck writing my own UI on top of Rails. Your article frames it as a bad thing, and I'm not sure it is a bad thing, it just means that demand has shifted to higher, more specialized web developers.
  • swah 11y ago
    I'm not a newbie, more like a generalist working in a isolated industry that I want to leave, and your article made me fear for my future :( But I'm very pessimistic..