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by atraac
1341 days ago
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> Just don't be a "language guy", my love for C# has kinda boxed me into a lot of enterprise software roles, particularly in desktop legacy and Cloud ERP. I'm in a similar situation. I love the language but I hate overall community and environment being all about Microsoft in most cases. It's really hard to get out too since most people will see you as the 'MS .NET guy'. There aren't that many companies that want generalists and good devs, most will look at you through the prism of being '.NET Developer' and having '.NET experience', not just 'developer' and 'experience'. It's a pain point of mine, even though I quite like .NET overall and productivity it comes with. |
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That's the brutal honesty, but to be fair it's on us to distinguish ourselves. It's weird, I used to look forward to development in the real world because I wouldn't have to use all the "useless crap" I was forced to learn in College. Now that I finally see the practicality, I can't ever using it without a lengthy debate. The amount of a CS degree that's actually needed to do these jobs is ridiculous. I used to think bootcamps were a joke, but if I had to guess there's a lot more hungry devs out of there that blow grads out the water. While I grumblingly retire to my office chair like Richard Nixon.
> It's really hard to get out too since most people will see you as the 'MS .NET guy'.
Idk if this is regular job hunting behavior, but I get messages on LinkedIn for almost nothing but recruiters telling me about some DoD secret clearance .NET job, they never reveal the company unless you ask which I find weird, and then I shortly find out it's a .NET legacy job with pre generic C# and Visual Fucking Basic. Maybe I take myself far too seriously, but I can't help and feel offended when I get offers like that.
The only time recruiters contact me for something outside .NET, it's for C++ embedded systems, which does sound more interesting, but I found the embedded world stressful a lot, to be fair it was my first job so I dont really know.