The sentence does end with "... and they need someone that knows how the wiring is supposed to work." I can easily imagine that the people in such companies ar

The sentence does end with "... and they need someone that knows how the wiring is supposed to work." I can easily imagine that the people in such companies are well aware that the system they have is overly complex but they don't have the ability/will/breathing-room to change. In such a scenario, I'd be perfect happy to pay top-dollar for someone who can understand it and patch things up. I might even consider them a knight-in-shining-armor. I remember a great HN submission from a while ago (can't find it now, I'm afraid), where a guy was making a great living out of making MS Access databases available online (or something like that). His work/software was critical to his customers' businesses -- but he'd gotten to the point where he couldn't stand it anymore (and the technical aspects of the company were quite convoluted).