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Lisa Cee
Lisa Cee

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How did you find your niche in tech?

There are a lot of specialties working in technology. When I was in my coding bootcamp we learned a lot of things really fast. I figured that once I got a job, I would be able to focus on fewer tools and get better with them. That hasn't happened yet and I'm not sure how to go about finding where I fit and can grow in tech.

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ImTheDeveloper • Edited

I realised I was able to pick up a lot of new technologies and had a natural affinity for wanting to know how things worked coupled with being able to explain these subjects to developers as well as business folk.

I became a solution architect.

Sometimes you may not fit into a specific box, but you have a broad range of knowledge too or a natural skill which can be repurposed. Just realise people need and therefore pay you for those things too!

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Aaron Reese

by accident.

If you want to be making the most income then the best advice I have ever been given is to be a generalist in an emerging technology area but be a specialist in a mature industry.

I have ended up as one of only 3 or 4 independents specialist consultants on one particular housing management system in the UK. This proves to generally be much more lucrative than just being an expert at SQL.

The tighter your niche, the more money you can generally command (or the easier the pitch) for your clients.
Don't just do web sites
Don't just do websites for hair dressers
Don't just do websites for mobile hair dressers
Do websites for female only, Afro-Caribbean mobile hairdressers in the South London area.. There will be enough business and you will get it all because you are the only expert in that space.

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

I didn't find my niche, I stumbled upon it.

I started with Android because I thought it was a good idea.
It turned out I seriously disliked it.
There was some gaps in my company on the backend side, so I did one experiment there, then more, and now I am a backend developer.

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hatInTheCat

I think i just kind of always knew it would be js. it was what i had the most experience and I leaned into it hard, then TS came and pissed me off. I have a better appreciation than i used to for it but i still hate it, and find i'm able to accomplish most things without it. lately I've been into python as its basically js with def instead of function, and its just really easy to accomplish data science projects with, and i want to pivot to Bayesian systems and NLP. I also find the D programming language very intriguing, and i want to make native apps with it.

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moutafatin1 • Edited

Not yet. this year I went insane and tried a bunch of things, but I still couldn't figure out where to spend my focus.