I have been freelancing since 2004 in the web industry as a developer. I have had many good years, then the recession came, and I dont feel as if it has recovered.
Clients have taken in house staff, clients mainly want smallish sites building. Large sites tend to go to agencies whose prices have dropped to that of freelancers, therefore I am having to drop my prices further to the point where I might as well get a job as a developer. Problem is that I just turned 40, age feels as if its helping agencies make up their mind in who to hire.
I am telling you this as I need to know if my take on freelancing is as a result years of being beaten up by a tough industry and in reality isnt as bad is it seems, or if freelancers are no longer in demand.
My skills are server side, php, mysql, front end dev. The usual full stack skills.
Are there any other freelance devs out there in my age bracket that are doing well.. (i hope there are).
I have looked to new skills, front end mainly in angularjs. But most of the demand appears to be in london and they are asking for me to work on site which due to various reasons I cant. I can take meetings, but not be there full time.
