> C++ is here for longer than your career will last. How many C++ jobs are there currently compared to, for example, NodeJS? 1000:1? 10,000:1? I have no ide

> C++ is here for longer than your career will last. How many C++ jobs are there currently compared to, for example, NodeJS? 1000:1? 10,000:1? I have no idea, but I do know that there are very, very few c++ opportunities in the midwest. As in engineering, careers are about trade-offs: we can go deep into a tech to make us very qualified for a narrow sub-set of jobs; or we can go broad and be less qualified for a wider selection of jobs. I've decided that broad, shallow skills are more useful than deep, narrow skill sets. I think the poor availability of C++ jobs is what keeps people from focusing on it as a career, and I was providing a personal anecdote to express that idea. While the software I'm using to write this message may be written in C++, the company who owns the software I'm using to write this message isn't going to hire me.