What do JOMO and FOMO stand for? I think of FOMO as "Fear of Missing Out", the controversial motivator driving retention for free-to-play games like Fortnite, but that doesn't seem to be correct in this context.
I mean, if I do a quick search on the Danish job agents, no one is looking for someone who knows GraphQL. Yet I see people desperately trying to learn it in their free time because they are afraid of becoming obsolete.
I wonder where this fear comes from. It’s a fairly recent thing in my experience, and it’s not like it’s a buyers market. We still desperately need more developers.
If your reference point is these companies and their developers, then it can appear like you're getting more obsolete by the day, since they're always talking about the hottest new tech and you're seemingly not using it.
It's turned web development and software engineering into a game of keeping up with the joneses. And I suspect just like with social media as a whole, it's made a lot of people feel like they're inferior to the rest of the population/their peer group.
But I've got an article about that planned at some point. About how the Silicon Valley focused tech media and internet has given people the wrong impression about what most such work is like in most industries.