35 here. I completely understand why you are on defensive about something you are passionate about. Try to see our perspective though; web dev, we've been ther

35 here. I completely understand why you are on defensive about something you are passionate about. Try to see our perspective though; web dev, we've been there. In my case, you name it, I've done it, nobody gave me a T-shirt thought they all asked for unpaid overtime. At some point you realize that it's a race to write more lines of code with every iteration, and that employers will gladly abuse your passion in many ways go get cheaper output from you. If I may take the liberty to give you an advice here, go for the lower level/more specialized stuff as your career progresses. Not only they change at a slower pace but they are paid way 2-4 times more here in Toronto. If you care that you studied and make a living off of it, try to focus after technologies where your hard work will be relevant longer. As for me, I love what I'm doing. Currently it's a mashup of crosplatform c++14, .net core rest api, elastic search, postgre and bunch of connecting glue. Our resident js expert is busy for the next few weeks so I'll probably learn typescript and go up my stack to provide an interface. Smaller shops are tons of fun.