One of the problems here is that the author is using his&#x2F;her experience at &quot;conferences&quot; and stories from former &quot;big business&quot; employees to judge the volume of available work.<p>Not only is that evidence anecdotal, but also comes from a very specific&#x2F;narrow audience.  I&#x27;m not going to say &quot;conference goers&quot; are inferior or bad at their jobs, just that there&#x27;s a whole lot of web designers and developers who never attend conferences and therefore aren&#x27;t included in his polling.  There&#x27;s also a lot of us (myself included) doing a lot of web design work for small businesses too small to hire in house.  Even when our clients hire someone in-house to <i>handle</i> the web, it results in more work for us.