freelancing might seem overwhelming, but your competition is terrible. Seriously, absolutely terrible. I think almost all of my clients have gone through severa

freelancing might seem overwhelming, but your competition is terrible. Seriously, absolutely terrible. I think almost all of my clients have gone through several programmers before me and their expectations are generally pretty low. This is sadly the case, I am worked on a project that was done by a developer and abandoned half way through. The code was atrocious and you could tell that this developer was in over their head. The worst part about it is that this developer speaks at industry conferences and blogs about the subject matter at hand. All of the developers on the team for this company had very low opinions of the freelancer and the project was put in significant jeopardy by this developers lack of real world qualifications on the subject matter. When the freelancer was questioned about their high ego-to-talent ratio they blamed it on the in-house development team and abandoned the contract. The worst part about it, is this person is friends with some of the best and brightest in a particular segment of the tech industry. I though to myself if this is the state of freelancing then no wonder I am beating away jobs. It goes to show some people talk a good game, but when the rubber hits the road they can't produce. The author hit this one spot on. If you are a consistent performer, you should consider freelancing.