I was downsized in May, 2023 from a Flutter Developer position. For additional training, I took much of my first year off refactoring two of my Flutter apps from Provider to Flutter Bloc. In 2024, while creating a 4th Flutter app and learning Docker and Jenkins, I’ve also been keeping an eye on the Flutter job market and replying weekly to recruiters.
Based on the few Flutter jobs that open from time to time, a trend has shown for jobs to require either years of native coding experience, or coding ninjas with degrees.
Being self-taught, I’ve spent the last four years dedicated to learning the Flutter ecosystem. In that time, I took a course on both Kotlin and Swift, and even dabbled with both during my 1+ year stint at my last job. But unless you’ve already spent years working with these languages, if you don’t use them every few months, you’re never going to learn them well enough to pass an interview.
That said, from what I’ve observed, the current Flutter job market is out of my reach.
And so, while I cannot cram 2-4 years of both Kotlin and Swift into the next year, and while I aim to continue replying to recruiters and waiting for the Flutter job market to pick up 🙏💙, I’ve opted to go all out on a personal project — one I hope will become a marketable golden goose within the next 12 months. 🏋️♂️ 🎯
What does NuxtJS have to do with Flutter?
The temporary downside of pursuing this personal aspiration is that, initially at least, I won’t be working with Flutter. Instead, I need to take a few weeks or so and put the website portion of the project together first, after which, I can then couple it with a Flutter app (as I did with my KD-reCall suite).
For development of the web portion of the project, I’ve already begun reacquainting myself with Vue (last used 2018) by way of learning NuxtJS.
I’m looking forward to launching an MVP soon, and seeing how the NuxtJS front-end framework can help streamline that goal.
Learning and growth are not goals, but a way of life. – Me
Cheers,
Keith | keithdc.com
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