What Technology should you learn?

Ideally you would go for what you have passion for. However, you need to mix in pragmatism.

Look at companies you would like to work for, check their careers page. What technologies are they looking for? Take note of what technology pops up all the time.

Do a search on indeed.com or any job site. For each technology, how many jobs are listed. Make sure you add the location that you are willing to work at. There could be a lot of C# jobs but nowhere near you.

How to learn new technology?

The best case is to convince your boss/co-workers/Product Manager to use it for the next project/feature. This is best done by doing a proof of concept project. In the some cases, you might have to do this outside regular work time. When you are finished, do a show and tell and hope someone bites.

You can also do a side project to add to your Github. However, you never get to find the pitfalls and problems without really having to support a new technology in production.

What am I learning?

I work at a small Startup and as the tech lead, I get to choose the technology. And I choose serverless technology using AWS.

You might say there’s not a lot of jobs for this and I’m not following my own advice. Well, sometimes you do what you are passionate about.