I didn't care much about money when I was younger. Now that I appreciate more how brutal this field is for older programmers and what it means to be older and l

I didn't care much about money when I was younger. Now that I appreciate more how brutal this field is for older programmers and what it means to be older and less employable in a bad economy I'm much more aware of my running bank balance. I'm also more aware that I have a finite amount of mental energy for coding every day and if I'm selling it instead of building my own things I'm not willing to do it cheap.