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How's the contract scene?

There's a difference between hiring staff and getting a job done. Most companies choose one or the other, but they're peanut butter and chocolate!

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IME consulting is where you can really win in a market like this. Especially moonlighting. If you can find an extra 10 hours per week reliably to work on something you can easily supplement your income by $60k or more. It’s not guaranteed to be interesting work, but there’s no shortage of people just trying to get a new thing over the finish line or an keep an old thing afloat for a bit longer. It’s a good value for the company because they don’t have to hire a “whole” developer, and it’s easier for especially smaller organizations to bucket all your hours into either CapEx or OpEx based on the project.

Do these opportunities come from your existing network?

Definitely. I’ve been working in the same general region building software for 15 years, so I have a lot of contacts.

Moonlighters getting locked out, from what I've heard.

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