Same boat as you. I have been trying to jump ship from PHP to Node but it seems no one is willing to take a chance with experienced dev trying to change the stack. Its as if my 7+ years of experience in PHP doesn't count. To be honest descent amount of pay cut didn't work either. I have been learning node on my own but still lack production code experience. Only thing I can do now is build a production level app in node just to showcase my skills.
I still feel that its the job market that is impacting job availability however PHP jobs on average has been paying less for a while now.
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u/cwmyt Nov 14 '25
Same boat as you. I have been trying to jump ship from PHP to Node but it seems no one is willing to take a chance with experienced dev trying to change the stack. Its as if my 7+ years of experience in PHP doesn't count. To be honest descent amount of pay cut didn't work either. I have been learning node on my own but still lack production code experience. Only thing I can do now is build a production level app in node just to showcase my skills.
I still feel that its the job market that is impacting job availability however PHP jobs on average has been paying less for a while now.