 Quitting PHP was a very difficult decision for me and I want to give you guys details. Let me explain. This video was brought to you by Digital Academy, your number one source to learn how to make money programming and get that six-figure salary you desire. Our academy have a wide range of courses including 3K in 30 days, our mentorship membership program, and much, much more. When you sign up for our free community, you get access to our membership community with like-minded professionals who's gonna help take your career to the next level. So let's take the first step to get started and really take your career to the next level with our seven-step money guide today. So let's go ahead and click the link below to sign up for our free seven-step guide to help you get your career started today. Believe it or not guys, let me tell you a story as far as why I quit PHP programming and it actually wasn't my decision alone. It was a lot more components involved than me just saying I quit PHP and I'm not doing any projects in PHP anymore. And I want you guys to really listen to what happened to me so that when this happened to you and it's going to depend on which programming language you use or you picked, the market dictate what you need to do professionally as a software developer. It's different when you have a hobby and you're working at home and you're doing your passion projects. I'm talking about if you are a professional software developer working for a company, especially a growing company, a company that want to really get an advantage in the market and scale out and have different projects, you're gonna find yourself working with top players that you really are a program language that you really didn't think you'll be working on. And I want to give you guys a reason. Well, first of all, what to expect when this happened and how to handle it and expectations going forward. So guys, let me tell you my story. I made some notes here so that I don't get lost and I can give you guys a clear understanding of what's happening with some easy points. So guys been working on a few projects, big, big, big, big integration project and trying to consolidate some companies, trying to consolidate infrastructure, technology and really massive, massive scale. And in the past, I did a lot of work with WordPress, PHP, MySQL and life was good. It was one of the first programs I used. I always preach it, but lately I haven't been leveraging it. I've been using SQL, specifically Microsoft SQL Server and structured query language based off of the project that I've been working on at least the last year and a half, been longer, but I noticed a difference between the programming language that I use for this programming. So that being said guys, I start to look back and I was like, man, I don't do any PHP work anymore at all and don't have any signs of doing it at least at this particular moment. Part of it is I'm focusing exclusively on the database side right now, but even if I got a front end job right now as far as just, hey, I need some PHP work done. If it's not an existing client that I know the infrastructure that we can turn around and get back to the primary project, I'm probably going to turn it down and not say PHP is bad. It's just that my company is a data focused company guys. That's what we're focusing on now. You're gonna find out pretty quickly. Number one, you're gonna start naturally niching down. And once you niche down, it makes your organization run more efficient and it gives you an opportunity to scale, be able to solve problems quickly, especially when you start bringing in more staff. They know, hey, this is the focus. If a company, if a client wants anything outside of this, depending on what situation, how fast we can turn around, we'll take on that work, but we primarily work on SQL. We primarily work on database work. And that's how here at DigiLink, how I'm rolling going pretty soon. You guys are gonna have this where you're gonna focus more on the front end, focus more on C sharp, focus more on Java, Python, depending on what that particular client or that market wants, you're going to naturally focus down. At this point, people start to realize, man, right? You know, I started off using PHP. I started off using Python. I don't use it anymore. I'm using this other programming language. I'm afraid that I'll lose these skills. Don't worry about that guys. It's just like riding a bike. You know, once you learn the basics of programming, the fundamentals, you actively working on projects with a programming language. It's just a matter of switching over, understanding the context, understanding the specifics of that language as far as just the use cases, you know, what's the advantages and why you use it. A lot of people come into a lot of projects thinking, I'm gonna force a particular programming language now in this client's throat, which in the past, you was able to do that pretty good because nobody really knew what was going on. They didn't have existing infrastructure and you have the flexibility to add something in a stack that really didn't in line with what that client wanted. This happened to me on older projects. I used to come in and look at a lot of websites and I see just my Microsoft shop or a Microsoft infrastructure that has this off the wall, Joomla, non-popular framework and CMS and it's just out of the blue. I'm like, guys, you had to go do new infrastructure that's to account for this and even then it's not a mainstream open source project. And it's classic, hey, a new developer, an existing developer came in. They ain't even think about the client's existing infrastructure coming. This is what I do. This is what I'm gonna put in here regardless of what they do and they wasn't supervised as far as just a question why are you doing this? And the client was stuck with this outdated technology that they didn't know how to manage as far as just scale wise. Obviously that account or that vendor end up losing business or didn't survive. I had to come in on the back end. I'm like, why do you guys do this? And that was the first website they did or the first real content management website that they did and they didn't necessarily look at. In that case, guys, if you're gonna go offside of the standard company software stack, at least make sure the solution you put in place is a mainstream solution or software like WordPress. I work with a ton of Microsoft C-Sharp related shops and you may think, well, WordPress is outside of that. You probably won't wanna implement that but guys, WordPress has a huge community with huge supported plugins and things and all this stuff to where if it's the best solution versus the Microsoft counterpart, it makes sense. But if you are not even picking the most popular, well supported, a huge community is going to be difficult. But guys, let me get back on topic. This is the kind of stuff that at the end of the day, you have to really leverage. And I talk about this in my seven step guide. So if you haven't already, go sign up for that. I'm gonna be making updates to this. I'm gonna start niching down my content to really be more specific on the tech side and kind of focus on the data-driven stuff guys. So if you already signed up for my seven step guide, go check out my premium courses. I'm redoing everything in my academy guys. So if you buy it now at the cheaper rate, you get all the new stuff and the most updated stuff for free going forward. So go ahead and take advantage of that, links are below. So guys, at the end of the day, that's why I end up quitting PHP. Not because I just made a conscious effort to say no more PHP. It's just that the projects that I'm taking on right now is mostly database focused. And don't worry about losing your skills or as long as you're working on a top 10, top 15 programming language, and you have the opportunity to get to enterprise level, which is mostly job-inching sharp. Some Python work. If you work for, if you're at Silicon or some of the larger markets, you're gonna get into the reacts, different frameworks to sexy ganglers and all that stuff. But at the end of the day, regardless of where you at in the software development world, just make sure whatever you're learning, translate to other companies and other industries so that if you need to leave your existing situation, it makes sense. And you're always taking that next step, even as you're moving to different companies. So that I make sure I don't forget or any points that I wanted to cover, professional versus hobby projects guys. This is another one. A lot of you guys may think, hey, I'm sitting with this program language because this is the one I enjoy the most. Yeah, from a hobby standpoint, go right ahead. If you're doing this for a passion project, you don't have to do anything for a client, turn this video off. But if this is for a client, this is for somebody who's paying you money, your opinions of the best program language doesn't matter. The market's going to dictate that. And if you don't fall in line with that, you're going to eventually come out in the matter of your deadlines, you're not going to meet. Other people are going to start questioning your decisions on your software stack and what program language you use. And as the net or the internet software development matures more, it's consolidating guys. So it's more standardized than what it would have been in the late nineties, early 2000, where it's basically the wild, wild west. And whatever ideas you can come up with, you can implement them in a company because they didn't have any existing infrastructure. You try to do that in 2020, you in trouble because companies have existing infrastructure. You got to know what works, what integrates with their current software stack and take all that into consideration. And don't come in blind and say, I don't care what they got in here, I'm putting this in here. We're in no regard. So looking and integrating, you're just setting yourself up for failure guys. Don't give us a bad name. We are already trying to remain relevant and not like a cost center at most of these companies. You just making it worse. And at the end of the day guys, do not force PHP in a software stack that it doesn't belong. Most of my clients, when it comes to WordPress, a lot of the popular Lambda stack applications and C-Panel, it's okay, it works great. But a lot of times when you start to get into the enterprise C-Sharp Java world, yeah, there's some integrations that we can leverage as far as just marketing, PHP, or marketing automation, and some of the CRM functionality from a web perspective. But don't get carried away guys. Like, subscribe to the content. If you haven't already, go check out my premium courses. Like, subscribe to the content. If you agree, comment below. If you disagree, comment below. And you guys see the link over here? 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