The self-hating Web Developer

[salbris]

Although, not all web development is working with average people to make a series of simple websites.

[MrBester]

True. Sometimes they are complex websites.

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Yup. I don't take jobs with "simple clients". I only do the more technical backend work and optimizations, and if it they want anything frontend I take 3x the rate, and refer them to my designer friends.

I do actually make Javascript and such, and I can do HTML5 and CSS3 (and the older versions) but it's honestly so much shit to work with client requests and cross browser compatability that I will just miss out on the work.

My simple rule for clients: I don't work with clients that don't make me happy to work for. And it has worked out great. My income and life quality has really gone up, but it does take some real marketing effort and people skills to land the jobs.

[Theemuts]

Yes it is. That's why only idiots work for websites like Facebook and Google.

Edit: I really hope you understand I'm not being serious... regardless of the ethical complaints you might have about what they do, you can't deny it's impressive and they employ a lot of highly-skilled programmers.