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?

  • YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca
    91·
    11 months ago

    Of those options, VueJs over Lia but your Java skills should transfer over to C# if you can educate yourself in that and dot Net.

      • m_r_butts@kbin.social
        51·
        11 months ago

        Last time I looked into it, it was split geographically in the US. The west coast is Java, east coast is .NET. Of course if you’re working remote, that doesn’t matter.

      • ale@lemmy.world
        21·
        11 months ago

        Not an expert on Java world, and I think that’s a hard question to answer definitively. Generally, I do perceive .NET/c# as slowly growing and Java as slowly shrinking.