[giantg2]

"So what’s the difference between changing jobs when you do have a choice and waiting until you don’t have a choice?"

The difference is that if I lost this job I would then have time during the day to look for jobs or study when I would have been working.

I don't really care what will happen. My area is shitty for tech work, my wife won't move, and I'm ill suited to remote work. I'm just coasting now. There's no point in upskilling until I would know what skills the other company would want because there are so many different things they could wanting the tech changes so fast.

[scarface_74]

That’s not how it works. Given a choice between hiring someone who learned on the side with no real world experience and hiring someone with real world experience - the latter wins.

That’s why you do volunteer for opportunities where you can up skill on the job and while you are still employed you find another job where you can get in based on what you know and then transition

[giantg2]

"Given a choice between hiring someone who learned on the side with no real world experience and hiring someone with real world experience - the latter wins."

Lol so I'm in a catch 22 and your precious advice does not apply.

"That’s why you do volunteer for opportunities where you can up skill on the job"

That's not how my org works.