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by mak4athp 4066 days ago
1. Figure out what sector/industry you'd like to work in.

2. Figure out what's popular in that sector

3. Focus your skill development on that.

With some exceptions, but there's a high affinity for certain technology stacks in most sectors.

Alternately, if you want to work with C or Haskell -- start by identifying the sectors that are actually using those (they do exist), and build your understanding of the problem domains unique to that sector or your familiarity with the frameworks, libraries and toolchains that are being used on top of them.