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Do you stay current? I see resumes for similar aged people who know cold fusion and Delphi, and those that know JavaScript and Elixer. I suspect interviews go
by brianwawok 6y ago
Do you stay current?
I see resumes for similar aged people who know cold fusion and Delphi, and those that know JavaScript and Elixer.
I suspect interviews go very differently for the two groups.
- ascorbic 6y agoI'm also a software engineer in my 40s who has not had trouble getting jobs. My answer is yes, I definitely keep current. Right now I'm working on Gatsby in TypeScript. 10 years ago it was Phonegap and native iOS. 20 years ago it was PHP and a bit of Mac software in Objective-C. By staying current I can negate the main objection that employers have to older developers, which is that our skills are outdated and we're unwilling to learn new things. It's more fun too!
- jki275 6y agoAbsolutely. C++, C, Java, Python, learning Rust now. Working on another MS just for fun. I don't do web dev so I don't give a shit about javascript.
- brianwawok 6y agoYah it doesn't mean you need to know everything, but you have to know something current or I think life gets hard for you..