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Nmeri17:
Instead of gathering intel from the rumor mongers and spreading the word to us here, you're coming to seek light from your fellow blind people. No be juju be that?

@topic, I will be surprised that good for nothing language/stack can fetch anybody above 200k outside lagos

tensazangetsu20:
Better off learning spring boot and c# to be honest and looking for roles in banks and fintechs.

Kaczynski:
Better learn ruby and start working for startups


Ruby na hot cake these days


If you wan freelance, do PHP

Nmeri17:
The problem with advice like this is that nobody will tell you such companies neither hire interns in those languages nor developers without lengthy years of experience in it. So, "learning... And looking for..." ,is imo a very poor roadmap toward the goal of increasing one's chances of landing lucrative dev roles



This, on the other hand, I can't quite tell how true. Can you enlighten the group, preferably with actual job postings or some metric indicating that learning rails would facilitate the target?

I enquired about this same subject, months earlier, on a foreign forum, and was told by the devs there that the myth of "hotcake" is a lie. According to them, there's nothing you can learn now and have job(s) waiting for you the following day. But I'm quite open minded. If you've got a rarely used tech at your workplace or are privy to some hidden job board, I will jump ship from my paltry current job with immediate effect

ekehopp2:
I don't think I'm ready to learn a new language yet.
This Javascript/Typescript I learned must pay good first.
Will go deeper with my fullstack instead, and pivot only after i start eating good.
Better a master at one, then a jack of all trades.

emetisuccess:
I code Reactjs and Laravel
Here's my portfolio https://emetisuccess.github.io

Englishisamust:
Can we talk

emetisuccess:
No problem boss

Englishisamust:
Your profile is only showing for business. What I want to ask you is not about business. It is about how I can improve my programming skills, especially in laravel..

emetisuccess:
If u want to learn fast buy a course from Udemy,
If u want to go slow and steady get videos and PDF materials from Google .
Then dedicate your time to learning it.
That's just it.

Englishisamust:
In laravel, I know about eloquent orm, migration, mvc architecture, middleware and query builder. Do you have any other things that I need to be learn before I can say that I am proficient in laravel..

emetisuccess:
If u want to learn fast buy a course from Udemy,
If u want to go slow and steady get videos and PDF materials from Google .
Then dedicate your time to learning it.
That's just it.

tensazangetsu20:
Banks in Nigeria now hire tech interns yearly. Better to optimize for that in my own opinion

Englishisamust:
Abegoo!! I dey hear rumour say some people dey chop money for the stack too. Any laravel and vue js developer here abeg show us wayoo!!! Give us some information about this growing stack!!! Na mern stack and mean stack man won kill himself on top currently he be like say I go do greediness join unna for this stack also. I dey always think say everybody don leave php. Since everybody dey always talk say he dey useless

ekehopp2:
This is web development, there are a proliferation of free courses online.
You don't have to spend 1 kobo when you're still at the beginning stage.
Freecodecamp, codecademy, YouTube tutorials/courses etc Use them!

The only money you should be spending is on data, and a laptop.

99thEnemy:
I am a dev of Laravel.

There are challenges in the job market.

There is high competition in freelance for the Laravel category. Its war to land a job with entry level.

But that should not be a discouraging factor. All you need to be well established in Laravel are courses from Laracasts. Laracasts cover the whole Laravel Ecosystem and extended, including the likes of Vue, Livewire, core PHP etc…

Englishisamust:
I think it is general for every other programming language especially the likes of JavaScript. Even tech in general. Someone just needs to learn based on waiting go dey put food for table. I do see a lot laravel gigs on LinkedIn especially in European county. They love laravel and symfony there

Englishisamust:
I think it is general for every other programming language especially the likes of JavaScript. Even tech in general. Someone just needs to learn based on waiting go dey put food for table. I do see a lot laravel gigs on LinkedIn especially in European county. They love laravel and symfony there

99thEnemy:
To land them is an issue.

The consolation I have is that my I am using my knowledge to develop a personal project in laravel.

Hopefully by God’s grace, I may launch it before the year ends.

ekehopp2:
What has helped me. Join communities where there are many senior Developers.
You'll hear them banter alot about the eco system and share vacancies.
Direct vacancies as in: "my office needs so and so kind of developer. Know anyone? Please share CV".
They also outsource small gigs often. That's the window I used to get my first gig. Expecting follow up of similar gigs too.
If you want to join the group, DM me. Will send you the link.

99thEnemy:
The email attached to this account isn’t accessible send me your mail let me message you

ekehopp2:
my username, without the 2, then @ gmail

ekehopp2:
What has helped me. Join communities where there are many senior Developers.
You'll hear them banter alot about the eco srested ystem and share vacancies.
Direct vacancies as in: "my office needs so and so kind of developer. Know anyone? Please share CV".
They also outsource small gigs often. That's the window I used to get my first gig. Expecting follow up of similar gigs too.
If you want to join the group, DM me. Will send you the link.