Ask HN: I need career advice
I am around 26yo and live in India (in a small city). I can survive without money for sometimes like 1 year. but my father's health is on the decline. I have a big brother but at some point, I have to do my part.
I am really interested in ML, data science, Clojure, software architecture programming languages and want to understand how complex systems like databases work and hopefully work on one.
My experience is mostly on web node/react/nextjs (8 months) and laravel/php/wordpress/codeigniter (All my life). I have also used vue/angular/jquery time to time.
in my free time, I taught my self-different programming languages but never got the chance to use any in production.
> go, oCaml, rust, Haskell, ruby, and python.
What I want to do is learn new things, kinda like research job and get paid for that ? also I don't have any degree in general.
if that does not work out maybe learn new technology and doing things the right way without worrying about deadlines. and small apps and hopefully earn from them?
if nothing all I will work as a freelancer.
So my questions are.
Q. Where should I invest my time?
Q. what should I be learning/working next to have a good position in the near future.