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I see it this way, the better the company you work for, the more responsibility they will generally have towards feeling you need to stay up on education and possibly provide opportunities for you to stay educated in the field you're paid to do. The poorer the quality of company, and generally the more you have to do on a regular basis as the primary individual to do your job, the less chance you will have to learn new technologies. Unless your company feels external pressure for you to pursue these new tech's you are on your own. Small shops with bad scheduling will make it so you are unable to schedule time for new technology stacks. You inevitably end up pigeonholed to stick with what you always use.

I think ultimately, many people in the industry, they only get to learn new tech when they leave for their next job. The pressure is momentarily reduced while they learn at their new job.

Just my 2 cents.



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