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Hard to separate yourself from your decisions and your toolset sometimes! I certainly may check out some alternatives at a hobby level and pursue them further i
by toxican 10y ago
Hard to separate yourself from your decisions and your toolset sometimes! I certainly may check out some alternatives at a hobby level and pursue them further if they appeal to me. But for now the money in my rural city is in PHP and to a lesser extend, .NET. Don't think I've ever seen a job asking for Python, Node, etc. that didn't require an hour + commute.
- meritt 10y agoIf you're (or anyone else) interested, my company is hiring senior PHP engineers. Modern tech stack: PHP7, MariaDB (MySQL), Redis, distributed workers, Debian, AWS, Solr, data mining/analysis. Competitive salaries, fully remote, vacation, retirement, etc. Contact me at meritt.hn@gmail.com
- jonaswouters 10y agoIf you jump on a new language early enough and are proficient enough to be productive in it, you have a chance to actually land some jobs with it without having to take a pay cut. Letting people know and engaging in the community is a requirement though. You'll meet other people passionate about it and ultimately network is everything ;) Then again I end up with php jobs anyway because I enjoy sharing my knowledge (coaching, improving way of working, etc) but at the same time surround myself with people who I can learn from. (Be it business, architecture or a different language, all relative knowledge is valuable)
- toxican 10y ago>surround myself with people who I can learn from. This is my biggest struggle. I am the only dev in what is primarily a graphics place. I've come a long way on my own since I started here, but I miss having a mentor or at least someone whose code I can look at and learn from and know I'm looking at GOOD code.