How can I improve my tech knowledge? I only know CMS like WordPress, Javascript, HTML, CSS and PHP. I found myself working on the same tech from 10 years ago. I need to study but I don't know what. I am interested in Cyber security and Robotics.
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How do you deal with the feeling that your entire professional output is meaningless? I’m watching my company ignore every single one of my user-centric findings. They pay me to conduct deep-dive interviews and usability tests, but at the end of the day, the CEO just goes with whatever gut feeling he had. It’s soul-crushing.
Our CIO is pushing us to learn a programming language that no one has heard of. He used it in his old job. One looked into it and found that no company or government agency in my state used it. It doesn't appear in TIOBE Index. It doesn't appear in Stack Overflow's to programming language. My colleagues and I see this as a huge career limitation. What can we do about this?
The work culture on my team is pretty bad. There is high burn out, lots of fighting, finger pointing, working 24/7. When I bring this up, the leaders mention that this is just how tech culture is. It is worse at other companies. I haven’t worked at another company so I feel like I can’t counter. What should I say?
Is going back to school or taking some online courses an option for you? I really think you might benefit from earning a certificate or two. Doing this will not only help you enhance your current knowledge base but these technical certificates will look great on your resume and help you land a really amazing job. Good luck to you 😊
Depending on your preferred career path, frontend or backend, you should focus on core technologies that are currently in demand, that being react/tailwind/vue, typescript, etc and Go, MySQL, etc, some of these you may already know but by following what the job market asks for will help filter out the list of what to learn, of course learning and practicing with these technologies by working through problems you will definitely improve your skills.