Web Designer -- And Proud of It!
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/proud/

MacGregor, Chris
List Apart, A
2001

Abstract:

The hardest part of being a professional web designer is telling people what I do for a living. The range of comments I get runs from dismissal of the web as a fad, to the ever popular, 'My fifth-grade son has his own website.' The main reason that job titles like Web GUI Designer or Web Creative get bandied about in the media and professional circles is that the term web designer carries about as much respect as paper boy in today's society.