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Any recommendations for a career change? (self.programming)
submitted 11 months ago by thefloweracidic to c/[email protected]
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I spent 8 years doing Java development, layoffs are coming soon (my second time this year! 😊), I know how hard it is to get a job out there, and I'm tired of Java. So I was wondering if anyone had any advice for pointing my career in a new direction. I'd like there to be some technical aspect to it still, which is why I am posting here instead of elsewhere.

Right now I'm really into Lua, Vue.js, and am considering picking up CompTIA and AWS certifications just to make myself more marketable.

I have good people skills too, so if a career involves talking more than coding I'll be okay with that. I spent part of this year teaching programming and loved it (but due to the state of the industry many academic businesses are closing down).

Or you know, should I sell my home and just go live in the woods until I die of malnutrition because at this rate we'll all end up there anyways?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

To be honest, I’ve been an engineer for roughly 15 years, and I don’t have any language or framework certs beyond my EECS degree. My languages and frameworks come and go depending what I am working on at the moment, but it’s generally not that hard to refresh my knowledge if I need to pull some stuff back up for use again.