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shortduck

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any Senior Java/Web/.NET developer here
« on: June 07, 2021, 02:41:00 PM »
Hello

I am a senior J2EE web developer with 10+ years of work ex. earning approx 120k. I am almost half way thru my FIRE goal.

I wanted to increase my net worth i.e increase my billing rate by learning some new tech and add into my toolkit.

Currently, I am learning React Js. Can you please point to some direction where I can archive my  FIRE goal quicker.

Thanks for your time and inputs.

bacchi

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Re: any Senior Java/Web/.NET developer here
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2021, 02:52:40 PM »
Scala. RxScala.

By "senior," how many years are you talking? $120k does seem low.

CodingHare

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Re: any Senior Java/Web/.NET developer here
« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2021, 02:56:51 PM »
I started as a C++ dev and have found my way to Typescript + React.  Lots of jobs available, including remote work.  Honestly at the senior level I expect less focus on specific tech and more focus on directing overall architecture.

The big technologies I see our company struggling to hire are your big data engineers.  Scala, R are big in that space.  But I'm not sure how easy it is to break in without a degree in data engineering specifically, since the real money is in parsing the data intelligently.

If you don't want to completely pivot, dev ops tools are a great thing to add on.  Everyone wants a Kubernetes cluster and no one wants to maintain them.

And there is always the path of management, but people are worse to work with than products, IMO.  :)

ender

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Re: any Senior Java/Web/.NET developer here
« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2021, 03:05:09 PM »
I'm regularly getting senior+ roles messaged to me on LinkedIn well above $120k.