11 years as Web Developer. As they say, hindsight is 20/20. 1. I would have pushed myself to really harden my understanding of the languages and frameworks I'v

11 years as Web Developer. As they say, hindsight is 20/20. 1. I would have pushed myself to really harden my understanding of the languages and frameworks I've used over the years. I usually get a cursory understanding and then just dive in. I should have, and still need to, continue to read, learn and keep up with ongoing changes and new practices. 2. I'd learn to negotiate sooner. It's never "work" when you do what you love, but then - yeah it is and you should be paid what you're worth. 3. As someone else said, push myself to finish side projects. I doubt I have any real moneymakers lying around, but I also have hardly anything to show for 11 years of work as it's only been with 3 companies and more than 4 years of that was not consumer-facing work. I still want to put something out there that I can proudly show off and say - I made that. 4. I had an opportunity to move to California (was in the midwest at the time) at one point and do basic entry-level database stuff for a friend. I backed out because it was a huge change and I was scared and I had just come off being an IT director and probably wanted something higher paying. Going back, I think I'd probably take the shot and see what happened. As the kids these days say - YOLO 5. Contribute more to open source. Both to give something back and to try to cure my ever-present imposter syndrome. 6. Definitely dive into mobile sooner. I'm a developer, not a designer, but I still have to throw together sites now and again and even the mobile-friendly aspect of bootstrap evades me. Responsive? What? It looks good at 2560x1600!? 7. Finally - and perhaps most importantly - BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP! Lost all my user data on a ramen-profitable side business that I managed to get going before I ever got my first professional gig as a programmer. Host corrupted my database and didn't backup either. I can't even remember who it was now, but this was 2004/5. I will forever kick myself for that one.