Sliding backwards

My wife, in response to a recent bit of LJ-age, excerpted a bit where I'd mentioned that working at my current job felt like losing ground, and asked what I meant by it. Here's my response to that:

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That's also why I'm intentionally trying to jump into a relatively new technology. Jumping from one old, established technology into another is even harder, because the competition is with more senior people, and the supply of competitors is well established. Rails is still young enough that it's rare to have three years of experience and they're scrambling for people who can do it.