This has been a rollercoaster year for everyone’s careers. Layoffs, dissolved opportunities, unemployment. All the bad stuff.

If you’re just starting out your development career, it’s going to be harder now than it was at just the beginning of the year.

That’s exactly why it’s important to have a laser-focused career goal. We may no longer be living in a time where casting a wide net is an effective solution to finding your next big opportunity.

In this post, I want to discuss four of the major career paths you can pursue as a web developer. We will take a look at a few things to keep in mind while progressing down each path. We will also take a look at how the new remote culture is already starting to play a role on each path.

Corporate Development

When most people set out to learn web development, I believe that corporate development is the option that first comes to mind.

These positions are attractive because they come with a certain level of prestige, great benefits, a community of really smart coworkers, and a healthy salary. Your parents will also be happy if you choose this route.

As an entry-level developer, this is going to be a tough market to break into until companies have adapted their onboarding programs for the remote landscape. Searching for corporate job listings now is going to return a bunch of results with “Sr.” in the title, and very few with “Jr.”

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What can you do to stand out?

The answer comes down to supply and demand. Corporations use an array of languages, frameworks, and other technologies, and some of those technologies are trendier than others. As a general rule, any technology that is trendy is also going to be highly competitive.

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