>It can certainly be scary, but there seems to be a good bit of work out
>there.

Plenty of it, last I was consulting. If you can get a contract gig, great, let someone else worry about billing, drumming up sales, and the like. When my wife and I ran our consulting firm, we always had work to do (sometimes too much), but be forewarned that consulting, IMO, is a hard way to make a living. There's lots of upside (like going to work in your underware), but there's some downside, too. There's a lot to be said for going to work for a big corporation where you get a guaranteed paycheck on a regular basis, the AP department worries about billing, and the benefits are paid for. Err, so I've heard.

>I had no resume, so went to work on one and put it up on the internet at
>www.computerjobs.com. Within 4 days I had several possible offers

Really? It took that long? Should've tried http://www.headhunter.net. I had people calling the same afternoon. Two days later I had an offer with a small Redmond, WA software company that happened to have a support center in Charlotte, NC. We were looking to move to NC anyway (which is why I posted the resume), so I figured, "what the hell?" Didn't really plan on ending up in Redmond, though. Funny how things work out.

>It's a little scary when the contract end is approaching, but this approach
>has worked out well for me so far -- so I guess I'm saying to check around on
>the various job sites, post your resume, and see what happens.

I would totally agree. The work is out there. My mother is doing this right now, and it seems to be working for her. If you can put "web apps" on the resume, you should have no problem getting contracts.