A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over

For better or worse the web industry is going through a bit of a phase. The reasons are largely irrational. People still need the web, nothing has changed there. Regardless, the financials of this business are a struggle. Longterm career prospects are looking dicey.Because I openly reject the driving force intent on destroying my profession, and ruffle a few feathers doing so, I often get asked privately for advice from like-minded peers. I can only offer an uninspired but sensible reply: don’t quit a paying job without a fallback. Go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over.I’m confident the situation will improve. Before it does, what can we focus on to accelerate past the intellectual slump, and better position ourselves once things calm down?What’s inFor a sustainable web career, where better to look than critical skills in desperately short supply? My focus is on front-end development, but these areas of knowledge are relevant to anyone in…