Hopefully I got your attention with the title. Is there really opportunity to do what you want when the job market is so unpredictable and so tight?

Whether it's crazy or not is unimportant. The point is that creating the job you want in a down job market IS possible, or at least for those that want it to be.

And what I mean by create your own job isn't necessarily entrepreneurial. It can be. But it can also be a job that you have, but you switch it up so that it suits you better. If you give employers reasons to buy-in, it may not be as hard as you think. It will save them money if you work from home part of the time, or if you work 30 hours a week instead of 35.

Or you may be more ambition than re-jigging what you have, you may be carving out a whole new niche for yourself Brave, yes, but maybe not crazy. Why? When incertainity is high, so is possibility.