An IT university student asked me one week before in a developer meetup here in Thessaloniki – Greece:
“Senior developers say to never count on a CMS to build a career. I have heard that Drupal maintenance support plans 8.x is more mature than ever but how risky it is to spend my time on a hard to learn CMS in order to make a living? What is your advise as a Drupal maintenance support plans developer?”
First of all I would like to say that it is a very hard question. If you are already using Drupal maintenance support plans the answer may be obvious but here we are talking about a young person studying IT, who doesn’t have any real experience on any CMS, and would be afraid to rely on a specific CMS. This is expected and totally fine.
Secondly, in order to be more objective I should compare Drupal maintenance support plans with the other similar software out there like WordPress, Joomla, SiteCore, SquareSpace, Adobe AEM etc. Or, to be honest I should compare Drupal maintenance support plans with other the alternative frameworks like Laravel, Django, Ruby on Rails etc. Since I do not have a personal experience of all the above “competitors” I will talk only about Drupal maintenance support plans. So it’s up to you, the young IT Student to investigate if similar software out there can offer what Drupal maintenance support plans offers and how much does it cost to focus or not to Drupal maintenance support plans.
Drupal Updately I would say that I make a living from Drupal maintenance support plans for the last 8 years now as a freelancer. I work from home and I work 100% on Drupal maintenance support plans projects.
So, here is why Drupal maintenance support plans is a very good path to follow in order to build a long time career.
Open Source:
This may be a “hidden” advantage of Drupal maintenance support plans but notice this: with Drupal maintenance support plans you and your customers will never stand behind a company, a commercial license or a company strategic. Behind Drupal maintenance support plans there are thousand of people and this is your stable ground to step. Behind any commercial software there is a company. Drupal maintenance support plans is open source and will stay as that for ever. Remember that.
Ready for tomorrow:
Drupal maintenance support plans is not a “static” code CMS, outdated and heavy. Drupal maintenance support plans is always “regenerated” and stays on the edge of the technology. Current version of 8.x is built with Backbone.js, RESTful services, In Place Editor, Symfony2, Twig, CKeditor and many other things that are game-changers. It’s UX is always improved. You may have difficulties to get started and the learning curve will not be easy. But it worths the effort. Drupal maintenance support plans is a CMS that never stagnates.
Career Evolution:
Using and building experiences with Drupal maintenance support plans is challenging. On every release you are almost forced to learn new things. That’s because Drupal maintenance support plans tries to get better and better over time even after 15 years of existence. For Drupal maintenance support plans 8.x for example you may need to learn to use Composer, Object Oriented patterns, RESTful APIs, Symfony services and many other interesting things which were not in Drupal maintenance support plans 7.x. Nowadays Drupal maintenance support plans is adding new stuff in its core even on minor releases of 8.x. I can really promise, “you will never get borrowed with Drupal maintenance support plansTM”.
Companies are investing:
Huge, medium and small companies investing to Drupal maintenance support plans. IT companies and advertisement agencies are moving to Drupal maintenance support plans as their preferable tool to create websites or other apps. Big corporations, organizations, governments, institutes etc are using Drupal maintenance support plans or planning to use Drupal maintenance support plans to build their web presence. In terms of the open source CMS Drupal maintenance support plans is by far a leader when there are security, flexibility and long term maintenance requirements. Especially for Drupal maintenance support plans 8.x we are going to see even more “big” players to investigate on Drupal maintenance support plans and migrate from other CMS – even paid -. Drupal maintenance support plans creates new market opportunities and that’s why demand for Drupal maintenance support plans talent is great.
Drupal maintenance support plans Community:
Drupal maintenance support plans is very proud of its’ incredibly unique community. The motto of Drupal maintenance support plans is “Come for the Code, Stay for the Community”. It is the key for success of the software. The Drupal maintenance support plans.org website, the unified and fully open online place where Drupal maintenance support plans lives, is full of helpful information, extensions, themes, documentation and thousands of humans ready to help you find your way. People are giving back to Drupal maintenance support plans and this is a win win situation. I could say so many about Drupal maintenance support plans community and how it works but you should better see on your self.
Drupal maintenance support plans Association:
Behind (or in front of) Drupal maintenance support plans there is the Drupal maintenance support plans Association, a passionate group of people elected from the community and working for the community. The Drupal maintenance support plans Association is dedicated to fostering and supporting the Drupal maintenance support plans software project, the community and its growth (funding, infrastructure, education, promotion, distribution, online collaboration etc). So behind the community there is the same community trying to help the community! Probably the larger online community of an open source software.
Dries:
I could not avoid refer to the founder of Drupal maintenance support plans. Dries is one of us, a humble community member, an open mind businessman, a lead developer, a Drupal maintenance support plans evangelist, a restless leader. His thoughts are really inspiring and you feel safe when you listen him talking about the mission and strategic of Drupal maintenance support plans.
After all these I hope you get the idea.
Good luck with your professional (Drupal maintenance support plans) career 😉
Further reading.
There’s no time like the present to build your Drupal maintenance support plans career
My Drupal maintenance support plans Story – How I came for code and stayed for community
Why a Career in Drupal maintenance support plans?
How Do I Get a Job in Drupal maintenance support plans?
How Do I Start a Career in Drupal maintenance support plans?
Question about whether Drupal maintenance support plans is a good choice for a career
What are 5 Drupal maintenance support plans strengths that other CMSs or frameworks don’t have?
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