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Don't abandon the idea. Keep earning your primary income as you currently are as a Sys Admin and coding where you can in your day job. If you enjoy developing
by saluki 10y ago
Don't abandon the idea. Keep earning your primary income as you currently are as a Sys Admin and coding where you can in your day job.
If you enjoy developing pick a framework (Rails or Laravel) and start building apps. Learn all you can. Work toward obtaining a remote developer position or working on contract projects to learn more/get a better taste of what the work is like. If you enjoy it and are successful work toward transitioning to it full time.
Another option is to create your own app/business and be your own boss if you're interested in that. Then you don't have to worry about being hired or ageism.
Inspiration: @DHH Startup School Talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY
StartUpsForTheRestOfUs Podcast
http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/archives http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/archives
Good luck, don't give up on your dream.
- gremlinsinc 10y agothink it's interesting you mentioned laravel off the bat, lots of PHP hate in HN (I'm a laravel dev too--and love working with it), Phoenix Framework with maybe VUE.Js on the frontend is on my radar for frameworks to learn going forward--mainly if I ever do anything with communication like a chat app, or something that might need lots of concurrency or to scale huge but use less servers.