Developer is a broad concept. There are many levels of abstraction between electrons messing around to one click voila you just made a mobile app that works! A

Developer is a broad concept. There are many levels of abstraction between electrons messing around to one click voila you just made a mobile app that works! Accordingly, there are many job/work opportunities on each level. Know on which level do you fit and exploit it. Currently, demand is huge on ALL levels! I do not know a single developer/programmer that fails to find work. Over 10 years ago I was walking into an interview to decide upon my admission to a CS MS degree. This was after 5-6 years off college and working as a freelancer all that time. The interviewer said more or less this: you do not have the required skills, all these years you have been doing 'business software' using VB and that is 'useless' here. You'd have to do/repeat a year of undergrad before we consider you elegible. Naturally, I felt like crap. But she was right, I was not the guy who could build an OS (nor wanted to). However, I was really good at helping business solve problems with IT. That was the abstraction level where I fit quite nicely. I walked across campus and signed up for an MBA with MIS focus. Best career decision ever! So I am not a hacker but I am a 'good enough' developer that has seen clients coming in since the day I left college. I moved away from VB many years ago but I continue to help business with IT b/c that's where I fit, b/c that's what I love to do ;)