How to make the back-end profitable?

Question

Career in IT

I am a front-end developer with php knowledge at the level of creating simple admin panels for websites, blogs, directories, etc. Without tsms, of course. I don’t know much about WordPress, but I didn’t do anything complicated on it.
The question is: where to go to earn more? If the front, then where, to some kind of studio, freelance, IT company and also about the back. I can’t say what I like more, because everyone is envious of the task.
Interested in the opinion of people who are already working and earning.
PS
There is experience of working for yourself, even the studio has its own. There are few orders from her. Since I didn’t pour money into SEO.
And anyway, I would like to develop as a programmer, and not as an entrepreneur.

Answer 1

The back end will be profitable once you learn the frameworks. If you have a studio, it's a great opportunity to try out new technologies and get bumps (I don't think that sites are mega-popular and critical in terms of accessibility).
Introduce Yii / Laravel / Symfony into your developments and experience will appear and there will be an opportunity to try what you like best. If the frontend is the main profile - try the node with the express (again, about the backend). In the future, you will already have experience with what everyone uses.

Answer 2

Why change at all?
I am a front-end developer, I work for upwork, my income is $1500, I have 2 years of experience, one year of which I stupidly studied myself. In order not to be a shit coder, I study someone else's code, read books, articles - this is much more useful than bazaars in a smoking room with other programmers in the office, as a rule, these are conversations, we swam, we know))

Answer 3

add google hell

Answer 4

Why do you need php? Take node.js and become full-stack.