u/Shaper_pmpin r/Frontend • Recommends
On “Front-End Developer for over 9 years and was laid off in March. Having a difficult time finding a job for the past few months. Since when did we need to know all these JS libraries and everything else a JavaScript Developer knows?”
Thanks for being cooler about it now. ;-)
Yeah - the life of a FE dev is (and has *always* been) one of constant study, stretching yourself and continuous professional development. You can learn about wood and how to hold a saw, and be a carpenter for the next fifty years without learning anything new, because wood doesn't change from one decade to the next. Development (and especially FE development) changes by the *month*, so you either keep sprinting flat-out to stay level, or you quickly start dropping behind.
It's easy to get lazy when you're in a static, unchanging job for a long time (we all have the temptation, believe me ;-), but you have to just knuckle down and keep developing…