So for context I am a Full Stack Developer. For the past few years my work has consisted of mostly developing and creating ERPs, starting from when I was an intern all the way to my current Full Time job. And honestly at some point it gets too repetitive and because of that I've been looking at other career opportunities in other IT / Tech related fields.
I've honestly been interested in Web3, crypto, and blockchain's technology in general for quite sometime, it's just that whenever I try to actually learn something about it (from the technical side) via searching in Youtube/Google/Main Search Platforms all that shows up is people talking about crypto but in the context of investment / trading.
For those who are reading this, do you have any suggestions on where I could start? I have so many questions like how do people actually start transitioning from a Web2 to Web3? What does the developer's roadmap usually look like in Web3? What platforms / communities people go to for discussions and sharing their Web3 creations? How do people find their careers / jobs in Web3? etc. Any thoughts / suggestions would help🤍
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You're not doing anything wrong. The reason your searches only surface crypto trading content is that speculation pays for content. The people actually building live elsewhere: the Solidity docs, Alchemy University's free cohort, EthGlobal hackathons, protocol Discords, and EthResearch. That's where the roadmaps worth following are written.
For the Web2 to Web3 jump, I'd skip collecting roadmaps and do one thing: write a small contract in Solidity, deploy it on a testnet, then try to break it with Foundry tests. Learning how keys, gas, and reentrancy behave in practice teaches you more than any course list. And the communities above are where you ask the questions that come from doing that, not before.
One thing nobody tells you about landing that first role: the teams hiring real Web3 devs don't start with certs, they ask "show me what shipped." I see the same thing on the IT and security side. No IT certification is needed to start; what moves someone forward is proof they can handle real work, graded the way a real job would grade it, with a verifiable work record behind it. That's exactly what the simulated shifts at getonthejob.com are built around: real tickets and incidents, graded like a real team, so your work speaks for itself when you apply.
For Web3, your proof is on-chain: deployed contracts, audit notes, a GitHub with tests. For the IT side of it, run a free shift and get the same kind of graded proof. Either way, build one small thing that works and stop hunting roadmaps.