Hi Sir, I have 20 years experience as a ETL technical lead, and since i am very good with attention to detail, i kind of stuck with this tech lead role for too long now. My salary is stuck at 15 lakhs and with 20 years experience and the technologies that keep changing, finding job is getting difficult. Even after learning new technologies, i am repeatedly being put in same old legacy stuff and also for my experience, they expect more from me which i am not able to answer due to my under exposure . I should have been atleast a senior architect now. But technology is becoming a hard nut to chew on these days. i am also inclined towards program manager kind of job but then since i have been in technology for 20 yrs now, if i have to start as a manager it will take a whole lot of time and effort to reach program manager role. Also, if all i have to concentrate is on becoming a program manager then i feel that this 20 yrs of experience may go waste..and maybe i repent that i should have started early in my career and should have taken a project manager role so that by now i would have become a program manager...i am so lost and inspite of being so senior i am not able to make decisions nor do i have clarity on what i want...
Ans: Hello
It is indeed difficult to keep pace with changin technology, but unfortunately that is the reality. The advantage you have is being hands on for all these years in tech. I would suggest you learn a few of the new age languages (javascript / python) and then become hands on by taking up freelancing assignments from odesk.com upworks.com freelancer.com (probably for a year or two) and then re-apply - there are a lot of opportunities to earn for good engineers with actual tech-hard-skills.
All the best
