Working as a JavaScript developer in a heavy Java shop for a major dot com. Everybody, on one hand, expects you to be a jack of all trades with mastery of: mar

Working as a JavaScript developer in a heavy Java shop for a major dot com. Everybody, on one hand, expects you to be a jack of all trades with mastery of: markup and various templating engines, CSS and presentation, anything related to events and asynchronous logic, distribution, and so forth. On the other hand your skills are generally not valued, though frequently requested and required. They consider JavaScript and the web an inferior platform and inferior skillset for amateur developers, until they are required to do some of that work themselves. When I am not available to assist the excuses and blaming of things piles up. Fortunately, I don't work in that industry any more.