Need advise - changing career
I have been doing web development for the past 3 years, mainly in PHP and MySQL.
And lately I have been thinking of changing my job into C/C++ area. The reason is that I want to try out something new and expand my skillsets before deciding which area I want to focus on.


I would like to get advise from you guys about this. Is this a wise thing to do for a programmer to change into different area/language. Or would you say to stick in one area and be an expert on it. If you have done this before, how did you do it?

Many thanks,
Need advise - changing career
===

I have been doing web development for the past 3 years, mainly in PHP and MySQL.
And lately I have been thinking of changing my job into C/C++ area. The reason is that I want to try out something new and expand my skillsets before deciding which area I want to focus on.


I would like to get advise from you guys about this. Is this a wise thing to do for a programmer to change into different area/language. Or would you say to stick in one area and be an expert on it. If you have done this before, how did you do it?

Many thanks,