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The European tech job market is... not great. You're not alone in this issue, it doesn't have to do with you, companies are extremely picky. Best advice I can give is to stop applying for vacancies and start networking.
I went through this myself. I was a 15 year JS/TS developer who had been doing web work even longer than that in my mid 40s. I changed careers last year. It felt like starting over but it was completely worth it. My long time painful observations: For the longest time the corporate web business back was dominated by Java. Some of the people doing that work were incredible engineers but many were not. Many of the peop…
to what? I'm willing to try anything.
> HS people
what is HS?
I went through this myself. I was a 15 year JS/TS developer who had been doing web work even longer than that in my mid 40s. I changed careers last year. It felt like starting over but it was completely worth it. My long time painful observations: For the longest time the corporate web business back was dominated by Java. Some of the people doing that work were incredible engineers but many were not. Many of the peop…
> I changed careers to what? I'm willing to try anything. > HS people what is HS?
A recruiter found me to fill a position writing APIs and proxies as a contractor for a large government entity. I enjoy it and the people I am working with. Its mostly low code using a proprietary platform. I still need to learn more about Kubernetes to get better at this.
But if you want to write Go, write go on your own time and use your day job to support your creative practice.
The more experience you have the more advantage there is to getting jobs through people you know, and the more disadvantage there is to looking to strangers for employment. Because looking for employment from strangers raises the legitimate question, "why doesn't this person have work through their professional network?"
The question is legitimate because of the circumstance you describe in your question...you are looking for work because you find yourself unwilling to work with other people. Sure, your personal reasons may be legitimate, but they are personal reasons not business reasons. At some level of seniority, there is an expectation that a person can put on their hipwaders and get through ordinary organizational sludge. Because that's the kind of person other senior people want to work with. Good luck.
The European tech job market is... not great. You're not alone in this issue, it doesn't have to do with you, companies are extremely picky. Best advice I can give is to stop applying for vacancies and start networking.
I'm not even in European market. I'm in a clown job market of a fringe European state.
The vast majority of population doesn’t even have technical experience.
A good lens might be to view those positions as senior first, and technology second, even if you don't necessarily voice that perspective in the cover letter / interview.
Is your career over? Probably not. But if you want to write Go, write go on your own time and use your day job to support your creative practice. The more experience you have the more advantage there is to getting jobs through people you know, and the more disadvantage there is to looking to strangers for employment. Because looking for employment from strangers raises the legitimate question, "why doesn't this perso…
I have done this many times. For example, I didn’t know k8s, and I wanted to switch jobs: I spent around 1-2 months learning k8s at work and at home, I learnt the fundamentals and did some side project and then I put on my CV that I’ve used k8s in my current job (I didn’t). I passed the job interview.
Also you’re in the EU so could feasibly move to where needs your exact skill set. But web/frontend/backend is needed everywhere so it’s likely worth adding that to your C skills.