Ask HN: Self-employed devs, how do you plan/think about your career?

Re:Ask HN: Self-employed devs, how do you plan/think about y... by psyc on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @12:25AM (#13538503)

In 2007, being a seasoned Win32 programmer, I was experiencing anxiety, because web development seemed to be taking over the world, and I had not yet written so much as an HTML tag. One day, I started fiddling with Javascript, and six months later I was a mid-level front end developer.

Since that time, I never worried about this again. We have the real option of learning whatever tech stack we want.

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Re:Ask HN: Self-employed devs, how do you plan/think about y... by SyneRyder on Thursday February 02, 2017 @06:54AM (#13549866)

You went from zero Javascript/HTML to a job in six months? Is that common? I feel uncomfortable applying for a job in something I only have a few months experience with.

On the flip side, I've found that sometimes you don't need to panic about these things, and the flavour of the month is just that. I'm still making money from Win32 code in 2017, even though iPads & tablets were meant to replace all desktop & laptop computers by now.

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Re:Ask HN: Self-employed devs, how do you plan/think about y... by psyc on Thursday February 02, 2017 @01:55PM (#13553343)

Yes, I did. And I've done the same thing twice since then. In my experience, top companies will hire people on the basis of being good, experienced programmers who know how to learn platforms.

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Re:Ask HN: Self-employed devs, how do you plan/think about y... by SyneRyder on Thursday February 02, 2017 @09:40PM (#13557203)

Huh. Thanks for the reply - clearly I've been selling myself short!

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