I’ve never in over a quarter of a century worried about whether a company is viable. My concern is whether my skillset is in sync with the market, my network strong and having a go to hell fund.
Well said. My skillset is really old but I just got a job with a modern skillset company however the company is in the hiring biz... any suggestions on what to do in this situation? Think I burned my bridge leaving the old place
My skillset was “really old” in 2008 at 34. I was still doing VB6 (7 years after it had been discontinued) and C++/MFC (Windows). What I did have is a level of maturity and the ability to talk to customers and knowing how to get things done.
I went to a company that used modern technology and learned how to talk the talk and built my resume.
But if I were in that position today instead of 2008, I would spend as much time as it took to study data system and algorithm style interviews - ie “grind leetCode and work for a FAANG” (tm r/cscareerquestions).
I fell into a remote role at $BigTech through the cloud consulting department specializing in enterprise application development where that wasn’t necessary.
Right now it’s cloud application development, deployment consulting - “cloud application modernization”. I started specializing in that five years ago.
Before that it was regular old C#/Javascript “full stack development”. I could throw my resume up in the air and have a job offer in less than a month.
5 years before that I was just coming out of an “expert beginner stage”.
> Right now it’s cloud application development, deployment consulting - “cloud application modernization”. I started specializing in that five years ago.
Is that working with Google Cloud and AWS and deploying apps on them?
