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by readyna
1037 days ago
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This seems like a pretty disingenuous trivialization. What would you propose then, I just twiddle my thumbs to wait for something to fit me? What if I were a a horse-drawn carriage driver and the car industry was relegating my career into niche theme parks? If I don't want to be in that niche anymore (and I don't!), then logically, I should learn how to drive a car and become a driver. I am just making the observation that the vast majority of available openings that can even remotely fit me (ie. not any sort of frontend) are backend, with a distant runner up of infra. If that is the reality, then I need to meet it. It's not that I'm against niches. I like the suggestion in the other post to go into infosec. I consider that a niche too but at least most companies would need it. Very few companies make operating systems. I feel that I shouldn't have gone this direction in the first place and this struggle to find a job is a wakeup call to change. My post already outlines my willingness to learn/retrain to fit a new reality. I'm asking for advice to make such a transition, not really looking to being told to keep doing what I've done when it clearly isn't a very portable area of expertise. |
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Another radical thought is to forget the IT industry first approach and look to other industries for suggestions of how you could best serve them and recommended contacts to chase up.
Mining, energy, construction, surveying, etc all have data heavy sides to them, specialist software, and particular hardware | processing needs.
Drones have embedded operating systems and a wide variety of sensor and control modules, they're used to inspect work, document multi spectral growth in agriculture, provide aerial footage in the AV industry (movies, streaming series, corporate documentaries, etc).
If you can visit trade shows for industries you've never really though about you will generally find interesting work that has an IT angle that is very probably starved for talented attention.