[Hondaracer]

it all very much depends on what you do, and what you specialize in

for people going big time contract work, they are typically programmers with a bit of design know how- they then contract out more design stuff to others but put it all together themselves

i'm a somewhat novice designer, and i'm almost purely based on design not programing, personally im looking for a job with a company atm rather then doing freelance stuff