Employment for a PHP position?

Question

PHP

A question. I have been working as a freelancer for a year and a half, from the first year I also worked as a front-end, landing pages and all that. Then I added plugins to Wordpress. I have a good experience with different frameworks, I can write a CMS in PHP myself, but the problem is that I understand that development with PHP is not very promising, I learned a little about NodeJS, and here is the question. Is it worth it now to go to the position of PHP dev, or wait, learn and go to JS dev? Maybe it's worth working a little with PHP, and then moving on in six months, but how to reflect that a person jumps to work?

Answer 1

For each task there is a certain tool, when there are several of them, it is chosen at the request of the developer.
Most sites on the Internet are in PHP
Most sites are simple, and therefore they will be developed in php, since there are most ready-made solutions for it.
Well, I would not say that php is not very promising, php 7 is pretty good.
I have a similar situation, but I don’t see the advantages of switching to another language - for example, I don’t see nodejs, I see only 1 minus - time and experience for a new language.
My opinion is that there are plenty of language features, where they are not enough, it is already better to use c++, go, perhaps because c++ was easy for me at the university and I liked it)

Answer 2

Support tester_toster .
I myself write with great pleasure in PHP. I know its cons, I guess about the pros. PHP 7th branch is very promising. By experience, I switched to both python and ruby. I concluded for myself - the same eggs, side view. I decided to improve in PHP and have no regrets.

Answer 3

I changed three jobs in the first year, it's completely normal at the beginning of life

Answer 4

I don’t see any problems, I like Noda, learn, reach a level sufficient for employment, but for now (if there is a need for money) you can freelance, or if they offer a job as a PHP developer, get a job, study the node in parallel