While this is true, I think it's also fair to say that it's not easy to just become a contractor. It requires just as much growth as climbing the ladder. Learn

While this is true, I think it's also fair to say that it's not easy to just become a contractor. It requires just as much growth as climbing the ladder. Learning how to manage your time, network, insurance, etc. In addition, you're competing for an ever shrinking pool of work which naturally limits the amount of work available and thus competitive participants. Also, I've worked with customers that have a ton of this "not broke software". The reality is that these systems present major bottlenecks in providing modern experiences around the data they manage. People spend a lot of time working around the limitations of these systems under the guise that its too expensive to replace.