>I think I have identified the 3 types of technical consultants. These are:
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>1) The smooth talker. Someone who can sell icecubes to Eskimos, sand to Arabia, but can't code his or her way out of a paper bag. Always turns to subcontractors to do the dirty work.
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>2) The eager beaver. Someone who has good marketing and technical skills but gets jerked around by clients because he or she can never say no to change or enhancement requests.
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>3) The wild-eyed guru. Someone who wears casual clothes and sports long hair, an earring, or some other affectation. A demon coder who is not terribly smart, business-wise, but can code anything. Otherwise known as "the gunslinger".
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>Any basic types I'm missing?

Yes
4) The Inexperienced High-Schooler, bad at coding, bad at business. You don't see them too much because we're too busy debugging computer games for the kids down the block.