RefactorCareer

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   by RefactorCareer 11y ago

   I'm not necessarily afraid to jump out of the box, I'm just unsure which direction to jump. I could work myself into a product manager (I've done stints to fill in for short staff), but I guess it would take some research to
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   by RefactorCareer 11y ago

   I know there was the developer agent idea (agent like an entertainment agent) floating around several years back. But this area really seems like an industry ripe for innovation. Starfighters.io has a take on the security world, but anyone
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   by RefactorCareer 11y ago

   I've had unofficial DBAs roles in the past, and it wasn't really the type of job that suited me personally (I like UI work as much as db work). I know they're in big demand though, so definitely a good path to look into if yo
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   by RefactorCareer 11y ago

   I just wanted to add that I do have professional WebApi, Angular and JQuery work on my resume, but the big thing that seems to be the blocking point is MVC. I don't code traditional webforms development anymore (I don't use contro
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   by RefactorCareer 11y ago

   Thanks for the honest assessment. It's definitely something I need to consider.
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   by RefactorCareer 11y ago

   No, I've been happy in my career. I want to find positions that I enjoy again, but it just seems like that sector of the programming world left me behind while I was selling out.
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   by RefactorCareer 11y ago

   Thanks, will check them out.
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   by RefactorCareer 11y ago

   That sort of goes along with the question of is pivoting myself into a front end engineer worth the effort? I'm comfortable using ajax and json services to create a UI--that's how I write my "webform" pages today.
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   by RefactorCareer 11y ago

   That sounds like a good path as well. Thanks for sharing your personal story; sounds like it would be worth it to take a temporary paycut to gain some experience.
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    by RefactorCareer 11y ago

    This does sound like a path, and like I mentioned in another post, it'd be easy to take an opensource webforms project and convert it. I'll probably try that out soon.
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    by RefactorCareer 11y ago

    I have a bootstrapped project already, but as you probably can infer in my postings, I'm not good at sales. I'm toying around with finding a business partner and maybe get more out of it. Side projects will probably always be a pa
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    by RefactorCareer 11y ago

    I thought money and flexibility would be enough, but working on simple client requests is boring me to death, and I miss the ownership of working on a product. I'm sure I could milk this out until I retired, but there are other issues
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    by RefactorCareer 11y ago

    I guess I wish the positions I applied for had hiring managers as open as you are. To be honest, with the majority of the places I've applied to, I get no response at all.
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    by RefactorCareer 11y ago

    I haven't found positions like that open to people without MVC experience on their resume, but that seems like a good possibility to focus on. I could easily take an open source webform app and convert it to MVC as a portfolio builder.
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    by RefactorCareer 11y ago

    I guess because I don't really have the experience of things going wrong there. I can tune a troubling sproc into performing well, but that won't make me seem like a senior dev when EF isn't syncing with an autogenerated db p
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    Ask HN: After 20 years of programming, what do I do now?

    110 points by RefactorCareer 11y ago|82 comments