Re:Ask HN: Washed out PHP Dev – What to do next?
by solardev on Thursday December 28, 2023 @12:04PM
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If you wanna hate your life and suffer for a few more years, Drupal is still around and there are companies looking for people to maintain their old Drupal 7 installations or rewrite them to 8/9.
Drupal is at the very top of my "never again" list, but I was surprised how many consulting firms there still were for it.
You're not going to gain any more relevance doing that, but it might help pay the bills in the interim?
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FWIW I was a PHP dev too before transitioning to the React world. I LOVE it, but the jobs are all gone now and the market for mediocre frontend devs is extremely saturated, lol, and we'll probably be replaced by AI soon. Wouldn't recommend entering it now.
Drupal is at the very top of my "never again" list, but I was surprised how many consulting firms there still were for it.
You're not going to gain any more relevance doing that, but it might help pay the bills in the interim?
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FWIW I was a PHP dev too before transitioning to the React world. I LOVE it, but the jobs are all gone now and the market for mediocre frontend devs is extremely saturated, lol, and we'll probably be replaced by AI soon. Wouldn't recommend entering it now.