[kqr]

> So for 3 years you are apprentice, after that journeyman.

What's nutty is that journeyman usually means "capable of a day's work without supervision" (hence the name: journee-man) and I doubt three years of work is really sufficient for that in complex fields like software development.

Granted, I worked with unusually skilled people for much of my early carreer, but I didn't stop feeling like an apprentice for at least seven years if I include education.

[tracker1]

I think it depends heavily on what you are working on. The vast majority of software development is effectively web forms connected to a simple backend/database. The web equivalent of MS-Access or Lotus Notes development.

I mean, you can do a lot more, and many are... It just cannot be underestimated how much low hanging fruit software dev there is in practice.