Ask HN: If you only do programming at work, how do you manage your career?
You kind of hit the nail on the head. If you don’t want to  constantly be on the treadmill, don’t focus on the front end. The further down the stack you go, the slower technology moves and the easier it is to stay relevant.<p>Besides, just from looking around, front end pays less and it’s easy for most companies to find cheap “good enough” front end developers.<p>As far as being “lucky”, it’s not luck. If I see my employer’s stack falling behind the market, it’s time to jump ship. Why would I work at a company all day and then come home at night trying to keep myself marketable instead of just changing jobs?<p>There is usually a job out there where the “must haves” are $old_tech and the “nice to haves” are $new_tech, rinse and repeat.<p>You could always take the r&#x2F;cscareerquestions tact and “learn leetCode and work for a FAANG” (note sarcasm).