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Any recommendations? What is a niche language that guarantees a job these days?
Ruby on Rails. Tons of stuff built on it, and still being built, but all the cool kids moved on from it.
My current area is Node/Js
Nobody wants to hire someone who isn't "competitive" and aspires to level up, advance, etc., unless it's for some short term contract. They want people who can do today's job today, and have potential for more / leadership tomorrow. Even if you just want to coast on by and collect your paycheck... you need to (at least pretend to) be be interested in advancement.
If you want to skip the intervewing, you have to network and make sure people know you. The goal there is for someone to reach out to you that they want you.
Nobody wants to hire someone who isn't "competitive" and aspires to level up, advance, etc., unless it's for some short term contract. They want people who can do today's job today, and have potential for more / leadership tomorrow. Even if you just want to coast on by and collect your paycheck... you need to (at least pretend to) be be interested in advancement.
If there was a need, even if there were a lot of candidates managers would prefer the first to be enough. But they don't have a need, government policies give them all the time in the world. So for managers it's worse to get the "wrong" candidate than a sufficient one. Managers also prefer multiple rounds, testing, etc, because they can avoid blame by showing they hired someone that passed all the tests. At the same time for managers it's better to get one superstar they can brag about than a person that can do the job, because there is no job subject to profit and loss in the first place.
This is how I explain the current situation, situation I find absurd. I may be wrong, but that's what I think. I don't know if it can help, I think your pain is fully justified and this is my attempt at easing it. It helped me a little, knowing I'm not the problem and nor is the person in front of me (at least not really)
Becoming a freelancer is a booster as it won't suck you into office games.
Nobody wants to hire someone who isn't "competitive" and aspires to level up, advance, etc., unless it's for some short term contract. They want people who can do today's job today, and have potential for more / leadership tomorrow. Even if you just want to coast on by and collect your paycheck... you need to (at least pretend to) be be interested in advancement.
My learning is if you want to be more employable don’t be awesome. Position yourself to the center of a bell curve.
Nobody wants to hire someone who isn't "competitive" and aspires to level up, advance, etc., unless it's for some short term contract. They want people who can do today's job today, and have potential for more / leadership tomorrow. Even if you just want to coast on by and collect your paycheck... you need to (at least pretend to) be be interested in advancement.