I found myself specialized with data eng + platform skills in Clojure + Kafka + K8s + Node and it's a liability if you want to work outside of Big Tech, because

I found myself specialized with data eng + platform skills in Clojure + Kafka + K8s + Node and it's a liability if you want to work outside of Big Tech, because few can afford to use tools like that. Node's relatively pretty expensive these days, believe I've used it a lot and bought into JS everywhere. But it's a really hard ecosystem compared to Python. Might be an out there take, but being able to develop a shoe string web app that can be maintained by a solopreneur might be a good skill. Should translate to rapid prototyping concepts for big corporate managers as well. I'd argue Python could eat PHP's old niche in these regards, because it's way easier to get rolling from scratch with Flask and Pip than PHP was as recently as 2016.