Ah, it only chafes when I apply your statements back to you about your profession. I see. Point of fact: I started as a visual designer when I was a teenager.

Ah, it only chafes when I apply your statements back to you about your profession. I see. Point of fact: I started as a visual designer when I was a teenager. Then I learned PHP, then Ruby, then JavaScript, off which I made lots and lots of money and no little fame. Then I got really interested in the way software WORKED and turned into an interface designer. Who designs and develops her own shit. Now I make and sell products directly to people who use them, nobody will "hire" me for anything ever again. What is my profession exactly, that I am preciously trying to protect?