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I'm 37 and would rather not stick to a niche personally. Being able to quickly adapt and grow keeps the job interesting to me.
by elliottcarlson 9y ago
I'm 37 and would rather not stick to a niche personally. Being able to quickly adapt and grow keeps the job interesting to me.
- nvarsj 9y agoYeah, niches don’t last in our field. Sure, become an expert in akka, kubernetes, or whatever tech is fashionable now - in 10 years it will be like you were an expert in CORBA. It’s a little annoying how you have to chase tech fashion to remain employable though. As if simply being a good engineer isn’t enough to pick up these techs and contribute meaningfully. You need to spend your free time learning the tech, or be at the right company, to even be employable. As we get older and have families, this becomes more difficult.
- pjmlp 9y agoWhich is why one needs to sell him/herself as expert in distributed systems, databases, systems administration, .... Meaning mastering the domain and not the tools currently being used.
- foepys 9y agoA niche doesn't necessarily have to be a specific technology. Why not become an expert in micro services instead of Kubernetes or an expert in message processing instead of Kafka?
- crdoconnor 9y agoIt's better to stay away from the super-hyped technologies IMHO. They might provide a few years of higher earnings but they have a bad habit of flaring out, rendering all of that hard earned knowledge useless.