As mentioned in another post entitled “A Chin Up for Other Designers”, a web developer is responsible for a tremendous amount of information and knowledge. Well, let me re-phrase that – a web developer that tries to do his/her best for their clients is responsible for a tremendous amount of information!
When it comes to a “career”, being a web designer, especially if you are a one-person operation (as I am), you NEVER have an excuse to be bored! On the rare occasion that I don’t have much work to do, I am constantly trying to either a.) improve my current skill set, or b.) add new skills to my skill set! From spending hours learning PHP in my “spare” time to getting better at CSS and working with the bugs that Internet Explorer endlessly produces, I am NEVER at a loss for something to do.
My latest project is the editing of a 45 minute video done by my client Lawrence Polsky of PeopleNRG. PeopleNRG is a company based in New Jersey that helps large companies in introducing change to their employees. Larry and his client Antoine do amazing work and travel all over the country and the world doing it! While this post isn’t about PeopleNRG  and I do realize that I digress, but if you’d like to check them out, their url is http://www.peoplenrg.com.  At any rate, Larry has given me the job of editing one of the video presentations of a talk he gave in Las Vegas. It has been a looooong time since I have done ANY video work what-so-ever so I am experimenting with iMovie on my new iMAC and it is a LOT of fun.

My final thought is that you can NEVER get cocky as a web designer because no matter what, there is ALWAYS someone that knows more than you (I humbly admit it) and even if you are a hot shot, you couldn’t possibly know everything….and if you do know everything you can always know it more and know it better.  At any rate, I am still having fun! Cheers!