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In the coming years, MERN Stack is highly to be used extensively since more and more applications are now built in JavaScript. It is the most sought-after language that serves both the front-end and the back-end side, doing away with the need for context switching.
- Exercise if you're not already doing it. Bicycling or swimming can be a meditative activity and get you outside some more
- Join another company, possibly even a startup thats doing something you find interesting or meaningful. The job itself probably won't be that different but it will be a change of pace, and maybe if you believe in what the company is doing then you might get more meaning from your day job. If they have in-office culture and you're OK with that, it could also be a good way to get out of the house and get some form of social interaction even if its work.
- Dota2 is clearly the escape, your brain has to choose between something hard and (in the short term) unrewarding vs something thats easy and immediately rewarding. Of course you're going to gravitate towards it. Definitely take a break from it for awhile, but you'll need to replace it with something else.
- If you really want to play a game, maybe try something like Factorio or Dyson Sphere Program, you'll be exercising a different part of your brain than Dota2 and you'll have something to show for your efforts even if its virtual.
- You could try making a game, its a very different style of programming than web stack and you have to do a lot of problem solving from scratch. Plenty of resources on youtube if you're not sure what to make. I've found it very refreshing.
In the coming years, MERN Stack is highly to be used extensively since more and more applications are now built in JavaScript. It is the most sought-after language that serves both the front-end and the back-end side, doing away with the need for context switching.
This seems like a comment from 2012...
Lol.
Maybe pern, but I think e might be replaced with buns http server for a lot of full stack or people will use remix which itself is pretty nice.... Or use go or rust or laravel etc....
Personally I won't touch a mongodb project, you can generally do much more and get better performance using postgres with JSON when you need schemaless tables.
Some possible career goals https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/09/30/some-possible-career-goals/
Also: Consider saving up some money and then go travelling for a while.
Best of luck!
If you're interested in learning more about business, maybe join an early stage startup (Series B at most) and focus on customers.
If you want to get into devrel or technical marketing, start writing more. Write blog posts for your company blog (since you can presumably do this on company time) if you have trouble finding time to write for yourself. Use company time to attend conferences or meetups and/or give talks.
You can also pivot into product management if you are interested in dealing more with customers.
If you're interested in learning more about tech, maybe go work for a developer tools or infrastructure company. They build compilers, databases, distributed systems frameworks, IDEs, etc. If you're interested in learning more about business, maybe join an early stage startup (Series B at most) and focus on customers. If you want to get into devrel or technical marketing, start writing more. Write blog posts for your…
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Finding another job that offers you the opportunity to learn new things is what I'd recommend in the short term.
Longer term, it helps to have some kind of goal. What do you think would be an awesome job, even if you couldn't get it right now?