Escape The Cold

I agree, I feel all the time I spended learning Django, Scala/Play, Go, Haskell, etc. is worthless because startups only hire Rails and iOS guys anyways.

I find it hard to believe that a Rails shop would not gladly hire an experienced Django developer, unless they were also wanting some "dev ops" duties that would benefit from direct experience with their stack.

We are Rails based, but are happy to hire people with Python + Django experience too, if they are willing to learn. We have hired people before who didn't have much Rails experience but came with an overall solid background in programming and were able to pick up Rails pretty quickly.

It's not difficult to pick up a new web framework. The skills that matter transcend the flavor of the week.

I started (as an intern) at the startup I work at now having never touched Ruby or Rails (other than to write maybe 10 lines total?) I started committing meaningful code within 3-4 days (working majorly part-time). I've written virtually the whole website, now, learning a lot of Javascript along the way, too. I also had no experience with Django or any other full-stack web framework. It's not that difficult.

They're not desperate. They're hustlers. And probably smart enough to hire a great Django hacker with zero Rails experience.

It's actually not that hard. The harder part is keeping yourself out of the warehouse parties...

In the winter there's plenty of night time to hack in.