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I am not even sure now that this will work in good economic times, since there is saturation in contract-based assignments, with agencies hiring programmers on

I am not even sure now that this will work in good economic times, since there is saturation in contract-based assignments, with agencies hiring programmers on very low rate in developing countries. All I can take away from this is that, one needs to have experience and a great network (potential clients) before thinking about contract work. Thank you for your input.

exelius 11y ago
Yes, a great network is essential. But there is plenty of room for independent developers; just target some of the less prevalent tech like Ruby, Erlang, node.js, etc. Most of the big shops go after Java, Oracle, SAP, etc. and don't bother with some of the smaller technologies because there's not consistent enough demand to support their scale.