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by kevinmershon 452 days ago
While all those skills are great to have, you're now competing with every unemployed junior, fresh grad, and old coder on the market. You need to update your skill set, and ideally focus on skills that are in higher demand and with higher barrier to entry or with a captive audience/market.

Vue/React/Python are all still huge but they're commodity skills today. Differentiating will help with the jobseeking.

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None of those skills are really out of date. Laravel is also still huge. And almost everyone is still using SQL.

And just because these are areas in which there are many juniors devs have doesn't mean that senior devs are competing directly with them.