It really depends on your market and what you've learned. There are plenty of jobs that involve making things to put out on the web, which is what "web development" is. But they are all semi-specialised and very few people can make a living with just basic HTML/CSS/JS web development skills.
The bread and butter of alot of "Web Developers" is Wordpress. If you learn that inside and out, you can likely find a job somewhere in a decent market. There are other CMS you can learn instead, but once you pick up one, then the others shouldn't be that difficult.
Another path is to pick up a ton of client side javascript skills (ideally combining bootstrap with frameworks like Angular, Vue, etc) and become a "front end" developer. This is relatively easy to break into, but it's harder to muddle your way through as you have to know a wider variety of skills. If you have the aptitude it can pay very well, though.
Probably the hardest to break into, but maybe the most stable, is to learn about databases and how the server works, and then go into server-side programming using PHP, Java, or javascript using node.js. I think this would involve some serious time commitment, and may be something you pick up after you get your foot in the door.
from Hacker News - New Comments: "WordPress" http://bit.ly/2VIeKFE
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