| Maybe I wasn't clear enough. I didn't say I would like to change career. I just said I would like to change area, meaning from old mainframe-like technologies into recent technologies. I don't agree that technology is technology. Would you hire a developer with experience in PL/1 to code in C? Would you hire a developer with experience in Cobol to program Java? I guess you wouldn't. Yes, I know object-oriented programming, functional, logical, procedural and scripting... But is that what you read in job posts? No, you read specific languages, tools and technologies. I didn't give up after 6 months. I had a part-time job during my MSc for 6 months in order to pay my studies/expenses. Then I have been working for 2 years for a financial institution. And now, after those 2 years, I realised I cannot find what I want inside the organisation and I want to move. I am not English nor native in English. I understand my English isn't perfect, but I have never worked with native English speakers nor lived in the UK (or any other native-English country). My experience tells me that you will only become good at a language once you live in the country and hear it from native speakers. Nevertheless, I think my English is good enough to perform my job. If you read my post, you will see that I already learn "newer" languages in my free time and I am already a contributor to an open source project (for 3 years). Moreover, I don't rely on people on teach me. I strongly believe that by simply working with senior folk, you will learn day after day. That is what I want to have. |
I started out coding PHP at company 1, continued coding in PHP for company 2 and transitioned there to working on a Python project. At Company 3 I am working on Java end to end.
Granted, all projects I have been working on are web development projects; however a senior programmer at my outfit with six years of exp started out as a embedded systems engineer.
I think the short answer to your question is : It's possible. Keep your chin up, and keep looking.