This. There is so much more to software engineering/CS than building web sites (not that there's anything intrinsically wrong with that, either). At my last jo

This. There is so much more to software engineering/CS than building web sites (not that there's anything intrinsically wrong with that, either). At my last job I wrote firmware for an embedded device that served as a bridge between household appliances equipped with low-power radios, and our company's Internet servers. Right now I'm working on mobile applications for a large Silicon Valley tech company (and I work with both web devs and server people every day there). The challenges, goals, tools, work environment, and sense of accomplishment between those two jobs were/are so different I can easily see why someone would flourish in one and be stifled in the other.