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by drivingmenuts 4359 days ago
Unfortunately, when you're job hunting ... you do.

As I'm finding out. Two years as a system admin and not keeping up with trending tech and I can't land anything here.

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Where do you live? In the center of San Francisco?

In every other place in the world nobody give a damn about the latest technology. They only need something that work for they problems.

Don't be a web developer if you hate fads. There are ERP systems, business systems etc that pretty much use the same tech as 20 years ago...
Mobile developers are ironically stable, being forced to use the language of their platform and maybe whatever their companies cross platform layer is made out of. I've been doing ios dev for 4 to 5 years and it's only whatever is new for the new OS version in objective-c. I was paid to learn all the newness of ios 7 as I transitioned the app towards it. Swift is mostly objective-C in a new skin with welcome improvements, so learning it is easy.
He is a sysadmin...
I dunno. Web developers in Ithaca NY use Angular JS, I know that.
Ithaca is full of hippies, it doesn't count.

/s (GREETINGS, MY ITHACAN BROTHER)

There's plenty of remote sysadmin jobs https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/16884/unix-devops-sys...

Note: "If you don't meet all those criteria, apply anyway. We'd love to talk to as many people as we can."

My local craigslist has dozens of jobs posted today looking for "Linux sysadmin" with scant requirements, offering $60-70k. Not huge money but better than being unemployed.

I keep wondering if the only reason you see that many ads for a trending tech is because those are newly-founded startups or small web dev shops that will be going under in a year anyway, or maybe because tech recruiters are out of ideas.
What happened to the tech recruiters that continuously send everyone job offers? Or is that only in the Valley?