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Find someone to pay you a professional rate. You get there by working your but off. I recommend specializing and going deep in one area. Knowing a little abou
by bobfirestone 13y ago
Find someone to pay you a professional rate.
You get there by working your but off. I recommend specializing and going deep in one area. Knowing a little about a lot if things with no real world experience is not a competitive position. Having experience with mongoDB and rails landed me a position over developers with significantly more general experience. At the time MongoDB was an up and coming technology with rapidly increasing demand. With out the specialty I had little chance competing against more experienced developers for general positions. Having a specialty I knew very well gave me the ability to compete.
- franl 13y agoGreat points, thanks. Has this been anyone else's experience? Specialization makes sense to me (and I like the idea of deep focus), but I feel like most of the job postings I've looked at usually list a wide range of desired skills. Maybe I'm looking at the wrong postings though!