What would those jobs be for him? If he’s developing CRUD apps, there really arent many jobs with high barriers of entry…
* graduate degree
* PMP and/or CISSP
* federal security clearance
* foreign language
* certs for AWS/Google/Azure
Technical pivots:
* operations (PMP would be helpful)
* management. I have pivoted to management and operations but am still required to ship software as a developer
* cloud infrastructure
* enterprise API management (MuleSoft is a proprietary solution that seems to be the growing industry solution)
* network management - routers and switches (get a CCNA and then work towards a CCNP)
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The best part about getting into a high barrier of entry job is the people. Everybody is generally confident about their ability to execute. That means people are more honest about technical concerns, less focused on how to do their jobs (literacy), less focused on the vanity of the technical work, and are generally more pleasant to be around.
Nope. It's exactly the same people as before plus some paper certs. Also a lot of them are generally incompetent which makes the imposter syndrome there as real as everywhere else. E.g. the hotshot guy with the AWS Architect cert that could not solve a simple permissions problem to save his life.