Fallacy: To stay busy, go broad
Fallacy: To stay busy, go broad. Offer many services.
Reality: To stay busy, be exceptional at one thing.
It's surprising how small you can niche down. My niche: I transition companies to React.
Even during this tough year, I've stayed busy serving my niche.
In fact, the arc of my career has been about “niching down”:
2000: Developer. I’ll code “anything”.
2010: C# and JavaScript developer
2015: React developer
2017-today: React training/consulting
2020: I help companies create reusable React component libraries