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Unfortunately doing this tends to lead to being unemployable because too many people associate being immersed in churn as "productivity." This spreads philosoph

Unfortunately doing this tends to lead to being unemployable because too many people associate being immersed in churn as "productivity." This spreads philosophically and suddenly people doing the hiring want these kinds of people who can "solve" these kinds of "problems." At the same time, finding something that works and sticking with it perpetually sounds wonderful - perfect, even. But breaking things and doing hard things also leads to innovation and new ideas. So ultimately I think there needs to be a balance and everyone should embrace a little churn while eschewing it in the broad form.

Ididntdothis 7y ago
“Unfortunately doing this tends to lead to being unemployable because too many people associate being immersed in churn as "productivity." This spreads philosophically and suddenly people doing the hiring want these kinds of people who can "solve" these kinds of "problems."” Totally agree. Sticking to things that work can hurt your job prospects seriously. You are quickly an “outdated dinosaur”.
yogthos 7y ago
I've been happily doing just this for a decade now, and haven't had any problems finding employment. People tend to focus on the absolute size of a community, but what really matters is the supply and demand ratio. Sure, a mainstream language like Js will have a lot more jobs than Clojure, but it also has a huge pool of developers making it hard for any individual developer to stand out. Meanwhile, Clojure has a much smaller market, but a growing one meaning that the demand currently outpaces supply of Clojure developers making it much easier to actually get an interview. Another side effect of this is that companies tend to be a lot more open to remote work.
wolco 7y ago
The best way to stay employed is pick something new. Start writing medium posts how this is so much better than what they are using. Get hired once the problems start mounting repeat the process for a new language.

Ididntdothis 7y ago

“Unfortunately doing this tends to lead to being unemployable because too many people associate being immersed in churn as "productivity." This spreads philosophically and suddenly people doing the hiring want these kinds of people who can "solve" these kinds of "problems."” Totally agree. Sticking to things that work can hurt your job prospects seriously. You are quickly an “outdated dinosaur”.

yogthos 7y ago

I've been happily doing just this for a decade now, and haven't had any problems finding employment. People tend to focus on the absolute size of a community, but what really matters is the supply and demand ratio. Sure, a mainstream language like Js will have a lot more jobs than Clojure, but it also has a huge pool of developers making it hard for any individual developer to stand out. Meanwhile, Clojure has a much smaller market, but a growing one meaning that the demand currently outpaces supply of Clojure developers making it much easier to actually get an interview. Another side effect of this is that companies tend to be a lot more open to remote work.

wolco 7y ago

The best way to stay employed is pick something new. Start writing medium posts how this is so much better than what they are using. Get hired once the problems start mounting repeat the process for a new language.