How can I improve my tech knowledge? I only know CMS like WordPress, Javascript, HTML, CSS and PHP. I found myself working on the same tech from 10 years ago. I need to study but I don't know what. I am interested in Cyber security and Robotics.
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I’m a 35-year-old in Seattle, and I’m genuinely terrified that I’m already becoming too old for this industry. I looked around our all-hands meeting yesterday and realized that except for upper management, almost everyone on the engineering team is fresh out of college age. They can pull all-nighters without blinking, while my back hurts if I sit in the wrong chair for two hours. Are we all just silently sliding toward an expiration date once we hit our late 30s? How do you stay relevant?
My company strongly encourages us to use copilot for coding. I have two “vibe coders” in my team. Sometimes they do funny things (like writing a separate java class with getters for two constants, complete with a test class - all AI generated and absolute BS), but most days, it’s taking a toll on the rest of us. The most annoying part is that the management praises the “creative duo” while we struggle, trying to put out their fires and keep the code quality decent.
Our CIO is pushing us to learn a programming language that no one has heard of. He used it in his old job. One looked into it and found that no company or government agency in my state used it. It doesn't appear in TIOBE Index. It doesn't appear in Stack Overflow's to programming language. My colleagues and I see this as a huge career limitation. What can we do about this?
Is going back to school or taking some online courses an option for you? I really think you might benefit from earning a certificate or two. Doing this will not only help you enhance your current knowledge base but these technical certificates will look great on your resume and help you land a really amazing job. Good luck to you 😊
Depending on your preferred career path, frontend or backend, you should focus on core technologies that are currently in demand, that being react/tailwind/vue, typescript, etc and Go, MySQL, etc, some of these you may already know but by following what the job market asks for will help filter out the list of what to learn, of course learning and practicing with these technologies by working through problems you will definitely improve your skills.