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I'm having a hard time as well. Frontend engineer who hates react. i've been unemployed for 6 months. I've applied to QA jobs, Technical PM jobs...i gotta get out of this programming racket at 46. nobody hiring an old fuddy duddy like me. Hell I even see job postings that say "co-founder/CTO, equity only. Must be early 20s"

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Hope it gets better for you soon. I'm a systems engineer who dabbles in coding and have been overwhelmed by all the frameworks and whatnot. Wish there were companies looking for just competent engineers to fill probably-mundane-day-to-day-but-mostly-reasonable-otherwise roles.

> Hell I even see job postings that say "co-founder/CTO, equity only. Must be early 20s"

That's code for 'I'm an "ideas" guy, and I need someone to do all the heavy lifting for me. We'll be hanging around work for 18 hours a day. Oh, you'll get 5% ownership'

5% if you are lucky :)

I hope things turn around for you as well. If you have free time and are interested, you should check out https://docs.stimulusreflex.com/. It's a new way to build reactive interfaces with Ruby on Rails. I'm not affiliated with the project directly, just another person that can't stand React.

You could try working on an online business as an alternative. You already know how to make websites.

If you're better at programming than design, a SaaS might be an option. Otherwise, you could create content that could be monitized with affiliate commissions or ads.

Of course, an online business takes time, but it could be a valid strategy in the next 2-3 years to generate enough income to cover your expenses.

have you tried alternatives? I don't like react as well, angular is even worse for me (personally) to work with, but I really love Vue.js. And the market is growing year after year for Vue developers!

experienced in front-end as well. but not looking for jobs. tired of front-end switched to data. there's plenty of data jobs out there. I'm trying to set up a data consultancy instead of finding a job.

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