[drakonka]

I have been programming professionally for >10 years and even though I've done some personal web projects and did some freelance web dev very early on, I haven't done what I would classify as "web dev" professionally for around 10 years, until very recently.

I did do backend dev for the last year and a half which is part of web of course, but no front-end bits were touched. Most of my career has been spent working on desktop applications. I don't really know what advice to give you other than "don't apply for web dev roles". I see many non-web positions in my area, they don't seem scarce at all.

Switching to a frontend lean now has certainly been very interesting; there are fun challenges and interesting things to learn in all domains.