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by mamcx 3475 days ago
Do you have a solid business career in accountancy, and wanna switch to grunt js work?

Is excellent if wanna do development, but why not apply your experience instead? Also in all this 10 years you have build some contacts to get your foot in.

I know that accounting and crud apps are not "sexy" and boring.

But you know what is worse and more boring?

Using js!

Jah, sorry, I can't resist.

But honestly most "front-end" work is not amazing at all.

Maybe building visualizations, charts and stuff like that. But pages and apps in front-end is alike build forms, but harder, more complicated and with less performance than native code.

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I'm in the process of build a point-of-sale app, and I will envy to have you background instead, or have a partner with that skills.

So, I'm telling you:

You have valuable skills that are higher than Js. Js/html/css is just a tool (that pay, because the front-end work have become more crazy and requiere more effort triying to be somethings is not made for), but in itself not become yet-another-front-end-dev when you already have a better position to offer.

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I always ask this of full-stack/backend devs who shit on frontend: show us what you've managed to build with that attitude.