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When you are planning your strategy for a career in tech, there are three broad questions that you would address. These are:
- Where am I now?
- Where do I want to go?
- How am I going to get there?
There are two videos that are worth watching if you are looking to move ahead with your web development career. They may offer some guidance to the first of these questions.
Web developer extraordinaire David Connelly discusses the trends in web development in terms of importance/heaviness.
- The management of the PHP language
- The rise and rise – and rise of artificial intelligence (AI)
- Trends in agile and DevOps paradigms
- Done-for-you content management systems, such as Wix and SquareSpace
Has the PHP jobs market crashed?
In this fairly short video, David elaborates on these trends and predicts what he sees happening in the future.
Still need convincing?
If, after watching this, you are still in any doubt, watch this next one.
Think and be miserable?
I closed my account on LinkedIn™ more than a year ago and then recently returned to it so I could get access to the courses. Yes, I had to start all over again. I started off with the web developer pathway. Guess what was included in the course?
You guessed it.
DevOps and Agile.
I understand that you have to provide training to meet the needs (real or imagined) of the tech industry.
However…
This is not something that really appeals to me. It would seem that the pyramid-makers have found another way to re-establish and maintain their hierarchies.
As for the gig economy, I am not sure what to make of it. I am on Upwork™ and there seems to be an increasing trend towards a kind of “gamification”.
Nor is this trend unique to Upwork. The popular site StackOverflow seems to be engaged in this activity as well. You have to dig deep to find real answers to challenges that are unique to your programming situation.
How about a growth mindset?
There is a book by Paul Zane Pilzer that comes to mind that you might wish to read. It is called Unlimited Wealth: The Theory and Practice of Economic Alchemy. I think he has another one out since the pandemic.
Could the dominoes be falling? Or is there another way to look at this? Like having a growth mindset as opposed to a fixed one?
Or is that just BS you get from people who are just out for your money?
Surely there is a silver lining amidst these dark and gloomy clouds…
By the way, speaking of gamification, you might consider becoming a video games tester as a side hustle…
Peace!
PS: I will return to complete the detox series at some point…
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