Ideas for career path

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Ideas for career path

  1. Cloud API developer
    1. Get good with languages like Python, Javascript, (Rust?)
    2. With your knowledge in Java, it will be very easy to learn them.
    3. The billing rates are very good.
  2. Cloud engineer
    1. Need to know everything about at least one cloud provider (Azure, AWS, GCP, in that exact order)
  3. AI and ML with Python
    1. Data engineer

You can say that you started as an application engineer, then did a lot of Docker, Kubernetes and microservices work and then later transitioned into one of these paths.

Make a choice about what you want to do next and start tranining for them.

  1. Look at the billing rates for ATG commerce. Learn it and look for a position in it.
  2. Call Mohana and ask about her plans and strategies
  3. Next job should be on cloud
  4. Need to get good at open shift, open stack, Ansible, shell scripting, docker, kubernetes
  5. Python
  6. How can you learn ATG or Websphere commerce? Vaatiki billing rates ela unnaayi?

Where can we find career mentors? or, job tips based on career paths? e.g. Cloud API developer - how to become one?

Carreer paths and sustainment in the industry

One of the friends was suggesting that I should just start applying for director postions at companies. Because the pool of candidates that will be applying for them will be very small. If I keep focusing on daily labour jobs like Software Engineer, the competition is huge. Even for one position, the amount of competition is very huge and the chances of getting the job are very small. And that can only go worse as my age keeps increasing. We should start thinking about applying for director positions. Re-build the resume that way. Add points like “I took the team in that direction or this direction”, “made key strategic decisions for the team to do that particular thing”, etc. If I just start taking interviews, even though I don’t crack the first few interviews, I will know what they are looking for in a candidate and mold myself to become a potential candidate.

It is not a bad suggestion. Something I should keep in my mind.

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