> The key difference between hobbyist and professional web development, in my opinion, is not so much programming knowledge but rather knowing the tooling that

> The key difference between hobbyist and professional web development, in my opinion, is not so much programming knowledge but rather knowing the tooling that surrounds a project (git in particular, testing rigs, etc) and learning to work as part of a team (how to estimate work, what to do when you blow up the git repo, etc). For me, the biggest shock was transitioning from ownership of the project into being an insignificant cog in a Scrum machine. It took me a couple of years to learn to not be very frustrated by it.