Yup, I was one of those people who was not very good at web design. I wasn't great, but I could tell from the beginning that I didn't have the skills to make myself a professional at it.
So I just left that sort of business, I'm still interested in it, and I do a few jobs here and there, but nothing major. I have another job in a retail shop, so even if business is quiet on my side, I have something to fall back on. I still go out to people's houses and as Forbairt says "Jack of all Trades, and master of a few" (or something like that), and I had a few jobs on business ecommerce sites which I really enjoyed, where I analysed them, and gave a report on them then, and the recommendations of the report were listened to and results were productive, so then I got recommended and have done 2 other ecommerce sites since.
In another case, I worked on the internal network for a business and put in a groupware management suite because the business wanted to encourage it's 15 staff to cloud compute, using their own laptops... as a result of declining sales.
I feel that I am slipping into a niche area now, different, but not far away from web design - and it's one of those areas, that if I can make a name for myself, and when I get a car, that won't be affected too much by the recession because, as I've said before to a couple of people - I personally believe it's really a matter of shifting your expertise, as the customers shift their demands...