How's the job market?
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Hello!
How's the job market concerning Qt? My background is in automation and I've programmed PLC's and integrated these into SCADA systems for about 15 years now. I've been scripting in both C and Python. I'm an avid Linux user and use it daily privately as a maintainer and developer. Right now I'm developing my own SCADA system in C++/Qt. I have been programming in 15 years but I don't have years of experience in this particular combination.
I've chosen Qt because it's open source and a high quality framework and my dream is to work with it professionally, either as a freelancer or as hired. As long as I can do most of the work from home.
What would you say is the probability for this to happen given my age, 43, and my fairly recent switch to learning C++/Qt? What do employers look for these days? Is it raw experience or hard work and an interest to learn, or all of these? I have the two later but partial lack in the first.I welcome any critique so please be frank with me.
/Michael
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Qt is not as popular as Python, Java, various network frameworks etc. so the amount of job offers is not very big. But every time I check, I have no problem finding some offers. Most of them nowadays are remote work and since Qt is kind of a niche, they tend to be well paid. Qt has strong presence in automotive, microcontroller, embedded spaces where your experience in C and PLC should be a big plus. Python is useful everywhere nowadays so also a plus. I don't think age should be a big problem.
Is it raw experience or hard work and an interest to learn, or all of these?
Programmer shortage is big, many companies have major problems in finding programmers, so they will be happy with anybody I think. So, your position looks strong :-)
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Qt is not as popular as Python, Java, various network frameworks etc. so the amount of job offers is not very big. But every time I check, I have no problem finding some offers. Most of them nowadays are remote work and since Qt is kind of a niche, they tend to be well paid. Qt has strong presence in automotive, microcontroller, embedded spaces where your experience in C and PLC should be a big plus. Python is useful everywhere nowadays so also a plus. I don't think age should be a big problem.
Is it raw experience or hard work and an interest to learn, or all of these?
Programmer shortage is big, many companies have major problems in finding programmers, so they will be happy with anybody I think. So, your position looks strong :-)
@sierdzio said in How's the job market?:
Qt is not as popular as Python, Java, various network frameworks etc. so the amount of job offers is not very big. But every time I check, I have no problem finding some offers. Most of them nowadays are remote work and since Qt is kind of a niche, they tend to be well paid. Qt has strong presence in automotive, microcontroller, embedded spaces where your experience in C and PLC should be a big plus. Python is useful everywhere nowadays so also a plus. I don't think age should be a big problem.
Is it raw experience or hard work and an interest to learn, or all of these?
Programmer shortage is big, many companies have major problems in finding programmers, so they will be happy with anybody I think. So, your position looks strong :-)
Thank you for your answer! Very interesting reading. I'm looking forward to the future even more now. :)
