It is risky to pay an unknown person $100 an hour, regardless of job. So employers either give the job to someone they know, or contract from a large firm with

It is risky to pay an unknown person $100 an hour, regardless of job. So employers either give the job to someone they know, or contract from a large firm with the expectation that the firm deals with whatever might come up frequently enough that it reduces their risk. The exceptions to this tend to be when the project is doomed, and the employer is just desperate to get anyone to work on it, which you don't want. So looking at those two cases, your best plans of action are to either subcontract for a larger firm in order to get fed more jobs, or do more networking to lead to those jobs. Sometimes the networking is in the form of doing odd jobs and low value jobs until something larger comes up, and sometimes just a matter of letting friends know you are looking for work. It would be nice if there were an easier method to go about it, but the bottom line is that $100/hr is a fairly valuable wage, and you need to earn trust before someone is going to fork it over.