Hi Adrian, Others may have a better idea, but I imagine that many "Senior Rails dev" positions could happily be filled by "Senior dev, Rails". It sounds like you've got a lot of solid experience. If you're interested in Rails I'm sure you could be productive in that. There are probably exceptions, but even then you might need to get into an interview to know more about whether it would be a good fit or not.
Also, remember it's your job to talk strengths, and the responsibility of any potential employer to determine their comfort level with any areas you could still improve in. Good luck! Cheers, Chris On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Adrian Gray <adrian.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > TL;DR - Should I look for a Rails job, or general web dev? > > Quick summary, I've worked as a 3d animator and video graphics game > dev guy for 15 years, with various coding throughout (C, C++, > Actionscript, Javascript). > > I really didn't like what I had been doing for the last 10 years > (building casino games), so 3 years ago, when my first kid was born, I > decided to get out of that work and retrain as a web dev. Since then > I've gotten experience with all the usual web technologies, and about > 2 1/2 years ago got into RoR to do my own things. I'm now comfortable > with Rails, Ruby, RSpec, and so on, and have built a number of sites - > the most complex have been a Facebook slots app where I did everything > except the art, and taking over dev for a retail stock tracking app. > > But now my savings are running low, our youngest is a year and a half, > and it's time to go back into the workforce. I can see a heap of web > dev stuff I'd slide straight into. But with Rails pretty much > everything I see is for senior devs, which I'm not - just self taught > over the last couple of years. > > I'd prefer to work with RoR, but I'm not sure if it would be more > sensible to just go into a web dev role, and try to do Rails on my own > time, while doing open source Rails stuff when time permits (like that > happens with two toddlers)... > > Any words of wisdom? > > Cheers, > > Adrian > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
