Ever the optimist, eh Dave? Tell it to the guys who started Google. Seriously though, what is the American dream? To study hard, get a 'good' job, work yourself into the ground, and die an early death by heart failure before ever seeing your grandchildren born? No! We live in a free enterprise economy, something they continually fail to teach in the American educational system (and we're the only country that doesn't). This country was built upon people owning their own businesses, and the only ones who seem to understand this today or those immigrating to our country.
You have to find your place. There is plenty of work for private contractors out there, and you see it roll in every day on the CF-Jobs list. And yes, those who come up with a great software package or service that can be resold, either in high volume or at premium pricing, are the ones who can really take things to new levels. I know one company that sells financial asset management and tracking software, that they originally wrote on top of CF 1, and those guys are doing just fine. The company that I work for (because I haven't hit on my great idea yet) designs websites for a very specific, targeted market. The company is good at what it does, it has laser like focus, provides terrific ROI for the client, and the guys who started the company are doing very well for themselves. Yes, web development by itself won't make your rich. Combining your talents with a business brain, defining a product or service for target markets, and building and refining something that people need, that is how you get to be a rich developer. Find a smart partner, with a business mind and an idea but no clue (mechanically) how to implement it. Or, work the mySQL route. Take a group of hot developers, write a killer open source app, build it out to the point where you have a free 'lite' version and a paid enterprise application, and sell support, maintenance, setup/installation, and training. My $.02 Steve 'Cutter' Blades Adobe Certified Expert Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer ____________ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com "The best way to predict the future is to help create it" Dave Watts wrote: >> But I want to join those guys you see on their huge boat >> during the day wihc great tans after their month long vacation. >> > > Then perhaps web development is not the field for you. Web development isn't > hard enough to warrant that kind of paycheck, > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > > Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, > Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. > Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72&catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:291507 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
