Which direction should the old man choose when moving?

Question

Career in IT

Age: 40+ years.
Education: higher legal.
Experience: 15 years of successful experience in logistics (from the bottom to the middle manager).

Due to the pandemic, my company went bankrupt about six months ago. I have money that will allow me to live in Russia for another ~3 years (without fattening and excluding inflation). I planned to start going to interviews, but I just can’t bring myself to work in logistics again. Tired of everything.

Thanks to family ties, it became possible to move to Germany at the beginning of next year with a 100% job in the IT department of a large company. My experience as a logistician is not needed there at all - only IT. There are three directions to choose from:

1. Web (HTML/CSS, JS, React/Angular + Node.js/Php).
2. C# (WinForms, WPF, .NET), SQL.
3. Mobile development - I didn't learn about technologies.
Well, according to the standard, Git and Linux are required.

In his distant youth, he created antediluvian sites, enikeyed as much as possible, but no more. Therefore, the question arose: what is the best direction to choose so that you can cope with learning (6-8 months), given that the old brain needs a shake-up to master new information? This is not counting the fact that you will have to tighten up your German a lot.

Answer 1

which direction is best to choose so that you can cope with the training (6-8 months), given that

does the old brain need a shake-up to absorb new information?

Definitely - 2. C# (WinForms, WPF, .NET), SQL.
The argument is that the web is now overheated (at the front level especially), there are a lot of young people who are ready to work for a penny. Plus, the Germans are not stupid either, and they take Indians outsourced, Russians who take 2 times cheaper for their services. Therefore, until you have grown to the level of the middle, there will be a race for a piece of bread.
Therefore, take C #, pluses: static typing, it is possible to switch in different areas, since C # is used in many places. The most juice would be to look at Java, because as for me after 40+, the priority is money, and Java is just about stability, business and risk minimization.

Answer 2

Dude, are you an idiot or a troll?
At 40+, you already have to think with your head.
Start learning programming (especially at this age) and want to achieve results in 6-8 months, under stress (moving) and still need to learn a foreign language? Seriously?
People have been learning this for years and decades.
The average age in the field is 30 years.
You are not that old for IT, you are not needed there at all.
Where are you going to settle down? Will you sit with 25-year-olds who will tear you on all fronts?
PS Now the locals will come running and tell you how everything will turn out chocolate here (no).

Answer 3

According to the first option, you need to know sooooo much, a huge zoo of tools, to study for a long time.
According to the third, there will be fewer vacancies than in the first options.
The second option is perhaps the most profitable, the easiest and most popular in the west
. But in general, with any option, it will be fine if it comes in. All options pay well. My friends in Germany had no problems with the load and were not highly qualified and it was normal, but it most likely depends on the company.