Ask HN: How do I escape webdev?

I'm a self-taught spaghetti coder webdev with thirteen years of beginner experience; mostly learning by googling how to do everything as I built web apps for small businesses or wired up forms and APIs through agencies. It worked for a long time, and yeah I'm probably that guy who wrote that stinky codebase you're dealing with. I'm not particularly proud of that.

Anyway, my "skills" (heh) seem to be mostly irrelevant now. I hated frontend ever since the responsive era, but I got by sticking to less design intensive stuff. These days the web is evolving very rapidly and I've kept up sorta, but I'm not passionate about this field, I'm getting older and there's lots of competition now and I'm unemployed. I basically want to get as far away from Node and React and CSS as possible. What's a good path out?

Why not just fuck your demons and learn modern web dev?

Thanks, I'll check it out.

> I basically want to get as far away from Node and React and CSS as possible. What's a good path out?

.net core or spring boot?

When you ask for another path out, do you mean in programming or another field?

There's always lots of jobs in app development, back end, game development, AI/ML, and so on. You still have a baseline of usable skills, mainly debugging and knowing why spaghetti code is bad.

It also sounds like you've been in some bad companies with poor mentoring. You might have to move around a bit, work with a better culture, but they uh, don't hire people who aren't brilliant. It's a circular problem, but moving might help. Code Review Stack Exchange and Programmers SE are good for pointing out otherwise obvious things you have never picked up.