[PJUG Javamail] Is software engineering in the US dead?

[Joshua Marinacci]

>
> My personal current career algorithm is to find something specific  
> that I really enjoy doing, that I'm reasonably good at, and that  
> appears to have a bit of staying power, so that I can continue to do  
> that even after I'm no longer viable in the traditional workforce.  
> Call it a non-retirement plan.
>
>

Yep. That's my career story. I was a contract programmer doing JSP  
work for a variety of big companies you've heard of, and I hated it. I  
saw that my job would eventually be outsourced or automated. So I  
picked a topic I enjoyed and that I felt was underserved (rich GUI  
development) and started blogging and writing articles in my spare  
time. That eventually led to working on the Swing team at Sun where I  
now work on JavaFX and get to speak at confs in other countries.

My advice: don't become a commodity.

-j

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