I in no position to tell you with a voice of experience, I'm just new as you are in my career, but that doesn't mean that I have no thoughts about that, since I wondered about that too.
My final thoughts were that we should find balance over both sides, be specialized and being diverse.
If we specialize too much in one thing and know pretty much nothing about others areas, when the market changes and the tech we know means nothing anymore, we'll lost our jobs.
If we get all over the place and know the basics of everything, we will have jobs, but always low hierarchy ones, and we may never get up at the workers pyramid.
In the end, and what I'm planning to do is to specialize in one or two tech/areas, keep track of tech/areas, choose some that have good chances of going mainstream and learn at least a intermediate level of this new tech/area
Java Web Developer with a passion for Spring and cloud computing. Know a thing or two about AWS. Trying to learn NodeJS lately with the help of TypeScript.
It sounds a reasonable plan, it is true that if you want to be good at everything you end up being good at nothing, but the market has been very demanding, you have to be good at everything by what we see position descriptions. It makes everybody anxious, principally us who are just starting and want to be in a better place in the future.
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I in no position to tell you with a voice of experience, I'm just new as you are in my career, but that doesn't mean that I have no thoughts about that, since I wondered about that too.
My final thoughts were that we should find balance over both sides, be specialized and being diverse.
If we specialize too much in one thing and know pretty much nothing about others areas, when the market changes and the tech we know means nothing anymore, we'll lost our jobs.
If we get all over the place and know the basics of everything, we will have jobs, but always low hierarchy ones, and we may never get up at the workers pyramid.
In the end, and what I'm planning to do is to specialize in one or two tech/areas, keep track of tech/areas, choose some that have good chances of going mainstream and learn at least a intermediate level of this new tech/area
It sounds a reasonable plan, it is true that if you want to be good at everything you end up being good at nothing, but the market has been very demanding, you have to be good at everything by what we see position descriptions. It makes everybody anxious, principally us who are just starting and want to be in a better place in the future.