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On 11-06-05 12:45 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message <isckmn$as7$1@dont-email.me>, Joshua Cranmer wrote:
> 
>> In the end, it probably doesn't matter. If you're a new entrant to the
>> jobs market, you should probably have the flexibility to learn any
>> language desired of you; if you've been in the workforce for decades,
>> then your domain knowledge is what will sell you and not the languages
>> you know.
> 
> I’ve been in the workforce for decades, and I keep getting challenged to 
> deal with new domains, from (most recently) mobile apps and telephony, and 
> going further back, databases and Web development (both back-end and front-
> end), multimedia, client-server networking etc.
> 
> I don’t think specialism in one domain is going to keep you employed.

What you mention are technologies. They are not domains. As I mentioned
in my previous post, domains are application domains, like engineering
or finance or health or education or aeronautics or games or image
recognition.

What you do need to do is keep up with the changing technologies. But if
you are specialized in an application domain then that will keep you
employed.

AHS