I am similar in age and experience, but I also always kept myself in some special areas (C++ is one) where I have deep experience and knowledge. You wouldn't b

I am similar in age and experience, but I also always kept myself in some special areas (C++ is one) where I have deep experience and knowledge. You wouldn't believe how much companies need/want a person who can be specific in an area, but also has generalist skills for that oh shit times. Frankly, how you get a job is by tailoring your resume/cover letter and being good at what you do and learning fast. Here is what I mean. Let's say you see a job opening for a person with 5-6 years of experience in language X and you are fluent in language X and have projects you can point to or experience you can share. Tailor your resume to point to those projects and don't use a chronology based resume, use a skills/projects based resume. This way you can tailor it to each position where you have relevant skills. This is marketing yourself and selling yourself. While I say tailor your resume, never lie, just highlight things that are relevant and that give them a reason to want to call and talk to you. Then the fact that you are a generalist and can answer questions on 10 other technologies and processes etc, will add value for you not detract and make you look wide and shallow technically. And moving forward, carve out a niche for yourself that makes you special in some way, don't lose the ability to do multiple things, but focus in an area. If you approach job hunting this way, e.g. you are marketing yourself, you will have far greater success and have a far better chance of commanding the higher dollar.