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Perhaps I should clarify in that I don't worry about what's cool right now, but do in continuing education in what's new-ish and a solid solution. Having fundam

Perhaps I should clarify in that I don't worry about what's cool right now, but do in continuing education in what's new-ish and a solid solution. Having fundamental understandings of your domain is very helpful in spotting what's good and what's marketing flash-in-the-pan. > That being said, the further down the stack you go, the more stability there is in technology. IME, it's about where you go and not what level of the stack. Some places are just fine with a basic form-based website with a little JS for convenience that ultimately just talks to an IBM mainframe. Others want full-blown SPA in the latest, greatest Hipster language deployed across a dozen datacenters with Kubernetes and whatever other trimmings.

scarface74 7y ago
And then after you get laid off from the vanishing few remaining companies using old tech and can’t find another job, you’ll be complaining about “ageism” on HN. If the market is paying higher than market salaries for the buzzword compliant “digital transformation consultant”, that’s what I will learn.
- vhakulinen 7y ago
  > And then after you get laid off from the vanishing few remaining companies using old tech and can’t find another job... As we speak, banks are migrating from systems written in cobol/fortran to systems written in java. I just got quite a few recruiters contacting me for open java jobs. Sure, frontend code was in angular and they offered training for it, but for some even angular might be considered to be "ancient" because they're living in a react bubble (not saying that you are).
  - scarface74 7y ago
    I know just enough about the front end to call myself a “full stack developer” and get past the HR filters. But front end developers are a dime a dozen and the pay shows it. I keep up just enough in case I need a job now and I want to get something fast. When the day comes that I do decide to leave my job and I leave by choice, I’m staying buzzword compliant enough to be an overpriced “cloud consultant”, “digital transportation consultant” or whatever the hype of the day is. But, I wouldn’t take a job doing Angular knowing that React is more popular and I would rather add React to my resume than Angular.

scarface74 7y ago

And then after you get laid off from the vanishing few remaining companies using old tech and can’t find another job, you’ll be complaining about “ageism” on HN. If the market is paying higher than market salaries for the buzzword compliant “digital transformation consultant”, that’s what I will learn.

vhakulinen 7y ago
> And then after you get laid off from the vanishing few remaining companies using old tech and can’t find another job... As we speak, banks are migrating from systems written in cobol/fortran to systems written in java. I just got quite a few recruiters contacting me for open java jobs. Sure, frontend code was in angular and they offered training for it, but for some even angular might be considered to be "ancient" because they're living in a react bubble (not saying that you are).
- scarface74 7y ago
  I know just enough about the front end to call myself a “full stack developer” and get past the HR filters. But front end developers are a dime a dozen and the pay shows it. I keep up just enough in case I need a job now and I want to get something fast. When the day comes that I do decide to leave my job and I leave by choice, I’m staying buzzword compliant enough to be an overpriced “cloud consultant”, “digital transportation consultant” or whatever the hype of the day is. But, I wouldn’t take a job doing Angular knowing that React is more popular and I would rather add React to my resume than Angular.