I read this online Business Week article and I thought I was reading about myself.  If I were to add my thoughts, I’d add:

• Live where you want to live (provided you have a decent Internet connection)
• Enjoy flexibility of schedule
• No corporate politics or non-productive meetings
• Meet and work with interesting intelligent humans
• Enjoy a different kind of stress.

Outsourcing Benefits U.S. Workers, Too – BusinessWeek

For the project workers who log in to oDesk every day to create their own job with decent pay, outsourcing is a wonderful thing—be it in Wyoming or New Delhi. Some have been forced from full-time jobs but many simply prefer to go it alone or to work with small groups. Scarred by a barrage of layoffs in recent years, these workers like the control over their lives and diversity in the source of paychecks.