I came to this realization a few months ago that I had been riding for several years on the wave of retrofitting and then migrating the desktop-focused web to mobile devices.<p>Once every business with deep pockets in my circle had sufficiently mobile-optimized their website, my services were becoming less and less urgent.<p>I&#x27;ve been freelancing &#x2F; consulting for 15 years, so having to re-skill or market myself differently is a periodic necessity. But generally I&#x27;m accustomed to making moves into other web-related areas.<p>There&#x27;s a new reality evolving that I&#x27;m not accustomed to dealing with. No growth in investment, no new bleeding-edge tech or hip design trend to sell to clients. The people who need web talent every day already have them in-house by now. The ones who don&#x27;t, hook together SAAS products to get what they need done.<p>I&#x27;ve become very skilled at hooking together SAAS products for online marketing use cases, but the more I do it the more I realize I&#x27;m slowing chipping away my clients&#x27; need for hiring designers &#x2F; developers.<p>The market is becoming increasingly saturated with competing talent, a lot of whom were sold General Assembly type training as an easy solution to low employment prospects, on top of experienced folks who are scratching their heads over the stagnation like I am.<p>Really thinking it might even be time to jump ship into another business altogether. I feel bad for all the folks who are entering the market right now, must be so disappointing