[rmnclmnt]

Might depend on your location.

For instance, in France a lot of freelancers are currently considered like "disposable employees": this borderline legal (your client is not supposed to have a subordination link on you) but as there is a real lack of candidates, that's what the market is going currently.

However, in your case these gigs might what you are looking for: 6+ months long-term contracts, working on already rolling projects, with lots of bugs to fix nobody want to fix internally because not sexy enough.

My strategy would be to look a job offers, and offer consulting services instead of full-time. You never know.