SKITLZ

One can master any coding language relatively quick if he: 1) Executes 2) Has good mentors I've heard several times of guys who were coding for a year or two and they've got really good Senior positions. They've been working 14 hour days and had very experienced guys helping them. On the contrary, I guess, everybody heard of or even know guys who're coding for 5+ years and are barely suited for a Junior position. Get in a bad company - it's gonna be very hard to learn anything. Get in a good company - you'll learn very fast and people in there will teach you lot's of things (that's also a reason why office jobs are more preferable for novices, than going staright to freelance)

Truth to be told. there are actually sometimes very smart web developers who actually can say "we can do it, you can't, go **** yourself", but the reason they are smart is because they're "nerds" and they are sitting in front of computer 24/7. This is also the reason they lack social communication skills and say a lot of uncalibrated stuff. They attract what they are and probably don't have good friends. No reason to pay attention to them, unless you wanna help them. And sure, coding / web development is not easy. Some people are more predisposed to that than others, for many different reason., One of the reasons might be the time they've already invested in it, be it through college math or some hobby at their home PC. But I've never seen a person who've put time into it and didn't succeed. I know several people personally who didn't show any sign of being talanted, and on the contratry, I thought it's just not for them. They've proved me wrong. At some point in time, they all had better jobs then I and few of them moved to a better city than I'm in now. I still think they are untalanted, but they just do it. My point being that it doesn't matter if you're talanted at web development or not. If you put enough time and don't give up - you're very likely to succeed. But that's only my perspective.