So, 2015 was my best freelance year since 1998.
1998 is when I went back to work full-time so that I could stop working night/weekends and spend time with my family. Most of the work from 1998-2014 were special projects that I did when tuition was due or when there was a conference in Buffalo etc. Then last year my family got so busy that I had a lot of free nights and weekends to work at home again.
So, now I balance my full-time job with a lot of really interesting freelance projects. The internet has created opportunities for me that I never could have imagined when I started to phase away from doing that freelance stuff full-time. Now I can see huge potential in the future and I'm really excited about where it is going.