Snippets of a conversation between me and a designer friend of mine:
Me:
I built a one-page form for a client yesterday because she told me it would probably take their agency until February to get it done. So I sat down for about 30 minutes and did what was needed.
Her:
Yeah, it’s like the agencies are playing hard to get. The clients say, “They can’t design my site until 2011? I MUST work with them!”
It’s funny only because it’s true. If it took me ten times longer (and I charged ten times as much) then I’d be just like the big agencies in New York and Los Angeles.