> 16 years of experience is exactly what empployers and clients want. Which area of the country is this? edit: oh. Based on other comments, you're a freelance

> 16 years of experience is exactly what empployers and clients want. Which area of the country is this? edit: oh. Based on other comments, you're a freelancer. What companies want in a freelancer/consultant are wildly different from what companies want in a full time salaried dev. edit2: And you live and work in Amsterdam. I hear the european job markets do indeed value experience. The American job market doesn't.