Title: I&#x27;ve been working as an independent consultant for about 12 years.  However, now age 40 with two young kids in tow, I&#x27;m looking for something more stable.<p>The crux is, while I&#x27;d want to get paid like a 18-year veteran of the industry, who would want to hire me for that?  While I can write CRUD apps in about a hundred languages, do embedded, some FPGA, some image processing, some web UI, some tablet, some desktop, some data analysis, some magento, wordpress, AWS, Heroku, Haskell, etc., nobody is hiring with a need for &quot;a little each of a bajillion skillsets&quot;.  At best 3-4 are used in any one job.  Also having worked primarily independently I don&#x27;t have a ton of the management experience that is asked for in senior level positions either.<p>So while I feel like I&#x27;ve put in the time and I have the intelligence, have I completely painted myself into a corner?  Even for consulting gigs, I feel like what I have to offer is not far beyond what a 2-year veteran with that specific skillset could offer, so how can I compete?<p>Granted I&#x27;m applying for jobs now and so it&#x27;ll be a matter of supply and demand, but has anybody else been down this road?  If you have and it sucks, can we make a general warning for other youngsters considering this path?
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