[percept]

I agree, but to gargarplex's point, it might be better amended to suggest that if you're a halfway decent _salesman_, you can easily get consulting gigs.

Otherwise one's liable to be scraping the bottom of the barrel for CL/freelancer site jobs.

[csa]

This is half correct. If you are the primary contractor, you need sales. If you subcontract to an agency (or something similar), you just need to be able to "sell" to other programmers. The rate is not nearly as good, but it's still _really_ good compared to "sales clerk".