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Unbiased1:
Almost all the tech fields are saturated. Lots of people across the world are going deep into tech thereby saturating the market even further but, just as more people are going into tech, more businesses are adopting tech in their workflows so there will always be jobs but they will be very competitive. For the factors you pointed out, they are all subjective but for the 4th point, that one is fully up to you. I started web development because I developed interest in web animations due to my past experience in graphics design and motion graphics. If you are working in a company where you carryout maintenance on an existing project, it will get boring overtime, very boring. You can fill up the gap by starting your own enterprise side project, there is nothing wrong if you startup your own tech company. When you identify what you love and sort out the 4th factor you mentioned, you can then carryout research on the first 3 factors.

Thanks a million

Unbiased1:
From my experience, I will suggest you learn programming through video tutorials and a documentation library. Boot camps are good for networking which can help you find coding jobs. I learnt web development using YouTube tutorials, W3Schools and MDN Dev Docs.

Here are few points I want you to take note of based on my experience learning web development:

1) I discovered that programming books and documentation related learning platforms like W3Schools and MDN tend to cover more aspects of programming than video tutorials but unlike what some people will tell you, both books and videos do not cover all the methods in web development so don't let anyone make you believe that books have all the information you need. The only place that has all the information you need is MDN Dev Docs because, it is like the biggest web development documentation on the planet with thousands of contributors who update the platform as new web technologies and methods are introduced.

2) I found tutorials on YouTube to be far more helpful and cheaper than paid tutorials and attending programming classes at a tutorial centers. The major con of using YouTube tutorials is that you won't be getting any certificate after learning.

3) Video tutorials are many times more understandable than books and documentations. If there is a particular topic you don't understand in the learning process, you can search for tutorials on that exact topic on YouTube and you will get tutorials that focus only on that topic without boring you out with other unrelated information.

4) You have to understand that you are not a dictionary, Wikipedia, Stack Overflow or Google, so don't expect to be able to memorize or remember everything you will learn. It's impossible.

5) There are many aspects you will not understand immediately. For example, "loops", "class", "object oriented programming" etc. You may understand how to replicate the example in the tutorial but not understand how to implement it in a real project and that is where video tutorials largely come in. In many video tutorials, you will not only learn the concepts, you will be put through on how to use them in a project and it is much easier to understand since it's a human that is teaching you unlike when you are reading a documentation where it's usually harder to grasp the concept and what it is really used for.

6) Someone here wrote something very misleading:

"Tutorials videos don't teach anything, they're just for cramming and for brainless devs that can't implement a for loop without looking at Google"

That statement is very misleading because even developers with 20+ years of experience still use Google to search for basic programming concepts. Like I mentioned earlier, you are not a programming dictionary and your brain is not a documentation heaven, you can only know and understand how to solve a problem but will likely not remember all the parameters you have to write inorder to solve the problem and that is where Google comes in. There are cases where you have no idea on how to solve a particular problem, you will have to search Google which will in turn, return results from different websites with the solution you need. Searching Google does not make you a bad developer.

7) You will have to dedicate much of your time to learning web development. There are videos on YouTube, uploaded by experienced developers, which were created to guide you on how to learn web development, the technologies you need to learn and which one you need to learn first before the other. These kind of videos are usually updated every year as new technologies and trends are introduced. They will guide you so that you focus on learning the key technologies you need to become a web developer so you don't start learning just anything programming language you see probably because you saw that the programming language is the most popular or it's the highest paying. To find such videos on YouTube, you can use the following search phrase "web development roadmap".

Build projects. The fastest way to understand most concepts in programming is to build projects. In the process of building projects, you will be forced to use all the basic and advanced concepts you have learnt and understand how they truly work, in some cases, you will be forced to use some cool methods that were never mentioned in your tutorials. You will have to go through documentations to understand how to use some of those advanced methods which makes programming even more fun.

9) Some tutorial channels on YouTube I will suggest you checkout are "The Net Ninja", "Codevolution", "Coding Addict", and "Free Code Camp".

I hope this information I have written here will assist you in your web development journey.

God bless you real good for this.

What advice do you have for someone who wants to pick up a Tech skill but not sure of what aspect of Tech to choose?

Factors that are important to me are:

1. Relevance (even in the next 10 years)
2. Job availability
3. High paying
4. Very importantly, something that won't eventually become boring to me. I don't want a situation where I will only be working for money and not enjoy wha I do.

I look forward to reading from you.

Thank you

ppogba:
If you really desire change in your financial situation as a family man earning with kids and the rest, the solution to your problem is not on Nairaland.

Rather, it is on you sitting down and telling yourself the truth. It now depends on how truthful you can be with your self.

I totally disagree with you. He will find help here.

The reasonable comments from people that earn way below what he earns will minister to him beyond expectations

No precautions?

Hmmm

Jcoleworld911:
But ronu people say that he died in Ibadan 🌚

Nawa oo

Where una dey see and read rubbish news.

A man even made a video in Yoruba, he narrated how he was in Lagos and was flown out of the country, but his wife did not go with him

Lol

HitSong:
Ọdẹ
Ya parents sabi read and write?
Oya correct Mr English prof if e sure for your papa

you never type pass 2 lines you don mention person parent 2 lines. What a shame

HitSong:
I THOUGHT IT WAS THE END OF NAIRALAND...


Nothing last forever though.

One day, NAIRALAND platform will seize to exit FOREVER

See as confusion full your English

marvellous2222:
you must be stupid, so you don't trust your wife.........some men deeply useless

Who is this one? Is his wife God? The wife that might not even trust herself, you are here taking paracetamol for another man's headache.

No continue like this o, if you want to have long life and prosperity

Lol

Hmmmm

BoldBrainz:
For a freelancer, you sound like too much of a proper dunce.

For you not to know that almost every item you buy in the nigerian markets is properly taxed and you pay all of it, leaves questions as to how you attained the standard of being referred to as a freelancer..

Why is it that empty Brains like you are always quick to insult people. You insulted op, whereas you are the real dunce. Uneducated fellow like you that doesn't know the difference between VAT and PIT. Shame on you

Congratulations to her

mastermaestro:
Very easy to spot irresponsible men. This internet loafer thinks being a man is just about possessing a penis. Bloody sissy! Take care of your in-laws as much as you can.

For your information, there are many men who care for nobody but themselves, yet poverty lives with them.

Do you read to understand or you read to respond?

Normal thing

I don't really understand why you are worried.

She requests that your brother comes with her.

Is there more to the story that you aren't telling us?

Lol

SmartyPants:
Don't you know you just proved my point?? Instead of asking whether he can speak your language, ask, rather:

Who are you?
What have you done?
What can you do?
Why do you want to lead us?

The ones that speak your language so fluently how far?

You also suggesting that someone at that level should leave all he is doing to go and live somewhere to learn a language at 40 something. Is that the deep analysis you were talking about? lol. Go and sit down abeg.

I have said it all in one post but you are not an open-minded person. That's why you are still trying to argue.

This Guy does not have a special track record for him to deserve a Waiver. Or you want the people to seat and believe the lies he wants to tell them ?

Since he doesn't have any special track record like Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, he should learn the language or get the F**k

HeatSeeker:
You are very biased in your thinking. So you can grant waivers to certain people that cannot speak their local language? And then go ahead to deny some others that same waiver because of "track record". Wow!

What do you mean by track record? Is it by bribing all the local Chiefs with gifts? Or doing give away as your people often demand? I wonder what "achievements" will warrant such a waiver.

I didn't say waivers should be granted. I said waivers maybe be granted for Individuals with track record of excellence. If such people plead for waivers, the people might choose to grant the waiver because the people feel they stand to gain a lot from that Individual's Intellectual/Leadership/Administrative prowess.

It's like someone who says she wants to marry from her tribe, she meets a man that has everything she wants in a man but not from her tribe. Such Lady could grant a waiver because of those beautiful qualities the man possesses.

Let's take Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala as example. The people might decide to grant her certain waivers because they know they will eventually be the ones to gain more at the end of the day.

The summary is that, regular people don't deserve such waivers. You need to be exceptional

SmartyPants:
Language is not a true test of leadership. We must not major in the minor always!

I totally disagree with you.

I don't know why most of you people are not deep and thorough in your analysis. This is the same reason people see signals that look like red flags before marriage but they are not wise enough to spot them.

For him not to be able to speak his local language speaks volume about him. Unfortunately, many of you cannot read between the lines.

People don't pick political ambition overnight, do they? What stopped him from taking one or two years to live and interact with his people to learn the language?

You said language is not a true test of Leadership. You are wrong in this case sir/ma. Learning that language is the beginning of true Leadership and having genuine interest of the people at heart.

On a final note, who is he to be given such waiver of Language?
What special things has he achieved?

Only individuals with very formidable track record of performance maybe considered for such waiver privilege.

Hmmm