Date: 10/01/07 (Web Development) Keywords: web I was wondering if I could get some input from the community. If you had to describe, in a single paragraph, the type of person it took to be a professional web developer and what the profession was like, what would you say? I've been doing it only for a few years professionally and it seems to me its a field where everything from the customer requirements to the day to day tools can change from one week to the next. And with the wide variety of people/companies that need the services of a web developer, you sometimes end up learning a lot about other fields that may or may not be useful beyond a particular project. Any other thoughts? If you were talking to a group of kids about to graduate college and go into web development, what would you tell them. How would you tell them to prepare for the field? Bonus points if you can put it in the following sentence "Being a web developer is like...".
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