As an independent consultant&#x2F;software developer, I&#x27;m deeply sympathetic to the author and freelance web communities issues. However it seems like the issue here is not that web design work is drying up, it&#x27;s that web design work <i>for freelancers</i> is drying up. If all of the companies that used to contract out to freelancers now want permanent employees, then that&#x27;s probably where you&#x27;re going to need to go.