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?
Is the C# industry in a better state than Java?
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.
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.
Thank you for the insight!