customers.

My experience has been that most companies are too stupid to save money, so you want to find the ones that really understand about "penny-wise, pound-foolish". Or, to put in the terms of one of Andrew's tales, $35/hour x 8 hours is a whole heck of a lot more than $60/hour x 1 hour.

It would also help (or be necessary) to find customers that will let you use appropriate development tools. Sure, people are more important than the technology, but good tools can really help. (To be fair, there can be good reasons for standardization, if the company will maintain the project after it is developed -- but with the "appliance" approach to computing I think such concerns are much less important.

Tony