Thanks for your comment, I appreciate your insights - and the way you've insightfully looked for jobs that are less likely to be outsourced. One point I wanted

Thanks for your comment, I appreciate your insights - and the way you've insightfully looked for jobs that are less likely to be outsourced. One point I wanted to reply to: > But higher up the food chain, where you're at the end of the market where you actually DO stuff like write original javascript, or develop some new server platform, or whatever it is on that end of the spectrum—those jobs aren't going anywhere for awhile. I agree, but I feel this part of the market is shrinking as more people squash into it. More and more of my current clients - and I could well have ended up in a backwater of sub-$18000 projects - are considering that 'good enough' is good enough while money's tight and there's a recession on. Perhaps the interesting jobs will move away from agencies and into the tech players (Google, Facebook, Oracle etc), and the self-employed market will struggle as anything other than contractors? Despite what I hear myself say I know other industries have gone through this doom-and-gloom over the last few centuries, and not all have become like manufacturing...