Next career move: Should I jump the ship and swim with shark in the city?
I've working for almost a year as a Frontend Dev (first tech job straight out of a coding program), I like the company, culture and the people. But, this is my dilemma; I'm located just outside of NYC, the tech stack is mainly XSLT, HTML, CSS, and a little bit of Javascript (jQuery), and $70K TC. I learned React/ Redux, Node, SQL at the coding program but I've not been using any of those at my job and I'm scared of getting stuck with basic/old technology so early in my career. Any thoughts? Thanks I appreciate it!
Yep... Find another job with a relatively bigger technical challenge: like maybe a react or node.js or angular based frontend stack. HTML/css/a little bit of JavaScript will not take you very far as a developer.
Current job learnings are good foundation and with new learning on react front you are ready for market and test the waters. Prepare and shoot for the stars.
You are thinking in very right direction, use current job as job security and keep looking for a job where you can learn something latest.
Thanks! I'm starting to apply.
what is latest ? lol whatever he learns will be outdated in a few months (mostly js frameworks). I suggest getting an actual bachelors.