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Discussion on: How do you stay flexible in your career?

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Daniel Schulz

Learn how to learn.
Specialization is great, but I think its way more important to find out how you can best take in new knowledge. Effective learning brings some major advantages:

  • you widen your operative range. You've built that frontend, but need a helper function in the business logic. If it seems easy enough, just write it yourself then.
  • it helps to deepen your own specialization. Knowing the server structure can help you settings up caching strategies for your frontend.
  • in the end, it helps you stay flexible. The right learning strategy helps you shorten the onboarding time to any new project or framework.

I think having a good learning curve is a more important asset than any framework knowledge.

If anyone in hiring reads this: how is your view on that?