Four years of being free(lance)

just over a year ago I write this post. The last year has been tumultuous at best and I'm not going to repeat the process here. Thankfully I have just about managed to recover the loss of work last year with the work I secured in the first two months of 2009.
I feel slightly less secure. For every freelancer declaring that they are rushed off their feet - with more companies not replacing staff (even making some redundant) and outsourcing instead - there are many more in desperate search for new clients as theirs outsource overseas. With redundancies increasing there are also more and more people entering the freelance market - lets hope we can all weather the storm.