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Re:The road to success is paved with rejection letters by giantg2 on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @05:20PM (#30520835)
Not in my case. My company hasn't allowed me to settle into a steady type of work/language/stack. I used to be an expert in other systems/tech, but they outsourced and downsized those. So now I'm always working on different languages/systems/etc. I'm basically an entry level with 10 years experience and an MS who gets a bad rating because I'm slow.
Re:The road to success is paved with rejection letters by stackbutterflow on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @08:45PM (#30522618)
I can relate, although I have fewer years of experience. I've switched from one sub software industry to another. My past experience is not valued or at least doesn't count as much. Which I understand. Small and medium companies want a person who knows their stack and who needs only a few weeks to adjust to the company but not someone who needs a full month or so of study to learn their stack. There isn't a lot of demand for generalists in my experience, which again is understandable.

I guess my point is that one has to think carefully about their career path and what they want to do beyond "Write code and build stuff".

Re:The road to success is paved with rejection letters by musesum on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @06:49PM (#30521664)
> entry level with 10 years experience

This sounds like a toxic work environment. Get out while you can!

Re:The road to success is paved with rejection letters by giantg2 on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @07:21PM (#30521935)
That's the thing. I think they purposely make people a jack of all trades so it's more difficult to leave (everyone wants an expert). I don't really have any options to leave (put in a few resumes, had an interview, but my location sucks for decent IT jobs).