A guy from Oracle advised me on I chat we had, on early days of the Google Talk. His name was Matthias Weßendorf (I don't forget people I am grateful) and the a

A guy from Oracle advised me on I chat we had, on early days of the Google Talk. His name was Matthias Weßendorf (I don't forget people I am grateful) and the advice was something like this: "Study software engineering, it's more difficult to change than technology, and you will use it for all your life". I got lucky to have this advice 10 years ago. I did a Master degree on this area and my life changed, my software has high quality, evolve fast and I sleep nice every night with all the "chaos" under control. I can change languages and development processes fast and painless. I think the point is: you have to understand the abstract concepts of technology rather than languages or frameworks. As an example, if you understand Object Orientation, new languages will appear and disappear while your abstract concept will still be completely useful and applicable. If you study software engineering, it does'n matter if you will use scrum, RUP, you will get it fast because you already have all the base.