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I had two clients paying me very well, but then one stops me on one project temporarily, tells me he has something more pressing for me to do, and praises the heck out of me. If that weren't enough, a third client, a Swede, has complete faith in me and is turning to me yet again for some short scripts and some eCommerce work. It's like raining gigs right now.

You see, with a few portfolio items behind you, and a good knowledge of PHP and MySQL and some well-known F/OSS packages on top of this, and some eCommerce experience -- you can go really far and you'll be very busy with good money coming in.

My rate might be low for what I do when you compare me to a desk job kind of programmer, but then again I can double up and triple up my workload and get twice as much cash in the door as the desk job programmer. Plus, I have like no interruptions and I see so much more of my family. So why do people do desk jobs as web developers anymore? Got me.