I've been a contractor for roughly a decade now and I can say that it's much better to be a generalist than a specialist. My personal skillset ranges from hard

I've been a contractor for roughly a decade now and I can say that it's much better to be a generalist than a specialist. My personal skillset ranges from hard real-time embedded/bare metal work through desktop systems, GUIs and server side stuff with higher level languages. Even been learning some Clojure... I've never been without work in ten years and have always gone from one job to the next. In comparison, I know people who know only one area and they are a quite regularly 'between contracts'...