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Agreed. It creeps up on you too. Always be looking for the next great learning opportunity.
by allsystemsgo 11y ago
Agreed. It creeps up on you too. Always be looking for the next great learning opportunity.
- at-fates-hands 11y agoWhile I completely agree with this point - as a front-end developer its entirely maddening trying to keep pace and learn what the "next big thing" is going to be. For instance. . . . After leaving a very small local company I was working at, this is what I found after doing a few months of research and interviews: I had several interviews, every single one for a front-end role. They ran the gamut of JS frameworks. Do you know Backbone? AngularJS, Polymer, Typescript, ReactJS? A combination of some? or none at all? Not a single interviewer asked me about jQuery or my "vanilla" JS skills - NONE. Every company big and small was using some kind of framework, in some capacity - albeit in vastly different ways. The point here is there's no way for you to predict how your next great learning experience is actually going to help you down the road. Our landscape is changing virtually by the hour. I have now given up on trying to have a learning opportunity whereby I can add some really good skills to my resume not only for now - but for future opportunities. It's made me a bit jaded that our industry is so fragmented that even by learning a new library or framework, you effectively remove yourself from consideration from a host of companies because you didn't pick the "sexy" framework
- stuxnet79 11y agoIt's so easy to get pigeonholed. I am personally tired of the treadmill. Looking forward to transitioning into a leadership / project-manager role.