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I can't find a job in Haskell or Rust. Do I start a company?
The title says it all. Albeit a little dramatic.
I'm about five years into my career. However, it's been 95% full stack javascript / web development. I no longer enjoy building REST/CRUD (or GraphQL etc etc) style web applications
I want to work in systems engineering but I have no experience. I'm really enjoying the learning curve that exists with Rust and Haskell and I'd love to work on a system that uses these languages but I'm finding it hard to break through the interview process - let alone convince a recruiter to interview me when I have 5 years javascript experience.
I have enough runway (savings) to live without a job for maybe 9-10 months...
So far I'm considering
* Reverse engineering a product that already exists and use Rust/Haskell to build it
* Port an open source tool from another language into Rust/Haskell
* Pick a Rust/Haskell open source project and start contributing (The trouble with this is finding one that is at the right maturity. It's hard to find the right issues to work on?)
In essence, how the hell do I switch my career path at this stage in the game?
EDIT: Apologies for the duplicate post...I have idea how that happened.
- garmaine 6y agoStart a business because you have a product idea, not because you want to do something already done but in Rust. That’s not a business model.
- _unrelated 6y agoAgreed...kind of a click bait title. I'm really wondering how does one break into systems engineering without any background/experience? I haven't found a single Rust job posting that doesn't expect 3+ years of Rust. I can't see any alternative other than start something yourself and work on it to get experience.