33. Front-end web developer. I haven't had full time work in 3 years. The market for my particular skills has been flooded for some time with cheap H1Bs and boo

33. Front-end web developer. I haven't had full time work in 3 years. The market for my particular skills has been flooded for some time with cheap H1Bs and boot camp grads. Also, the fact that I take longer to complete the "same" work doesn't help me. In the front-end world, managers obsess over time to completion, no matter how many bugs it has. It's not like I'm extreme in this area, either. I don't spend 10x the time of my contemporaries for the ideal of "proper programming". It's closer to 1.5-2x and my code has considerably fewer bugs than most of my co-workers. But, the lack of bugs isn't valued by most companies, I've found. I should really re-train in something that companies find useful (mobile, distributed backend computing, data learning, ???). I make ends meet by freelancing and contracting. A few weeks creating a POC here, a few weeks fixing somebody's wordpress install there. It's a living.