It's not so much the amount of jobs on offer...it's what the jobs themselves offer, I think. A friend of mine used to refer to it as cowboy engineering - where

It's not so much the amount of jobs on offer...it's what the jobs themselves offer, I think. A friend of mine used to refer to it as cowboy engineering - where a problem needs to be solved yesterday, and everyone does anything necessary to solve it. Nowadays, even on side projects, the overhead kills you - issue tracking, version management, module management, change tracking, support. Precious little time ends up being spent on the core problem in most jobs.