Question, have you ever felt like you have been pigeonholed into specific languages? I am feeling more and more like I am getting forced onto projects because to few people know the language (LabVIEW). getting tired of it, and not sure what the way out is.

@Demolishun truth. Has it gotten better? no, i'd arguably say it has gotten worse at least in my case when trying to update labview 7.1 to 2019.

somebody long ago decided labview was the "hit thing" so we have a ton of projects that are stuck in this hell.

I think the best thing is to go someplace that doesn't have the thing you feel assigned to.

They can't do it if it isn't there ;)

@N00bPancakes it's not that there are not projects that use other languages, it's that too few people have experience with labview.

Ways out of it is either to find someone to offer as your replacement maybe like train a junior OR resign and find some other company where you can get to work on something else.

LabVIEW?!

@Demolishun I have asked, but always gets shut down.

@lydeking yes

@Demolishun it's a little more complicated with time constraints and contract req's, but yeah. It seems talent pool for labview is always tied up in other projects as well.

frustrating.

Don't learn to use something you don't want to use. Otherwise you might end up having to use it.

@Demolishun I recently wrote some perl for the first time and... that was kinda weird. I made a short script and there were already wtf moments.

Yes.

At first, everything was pushing me into PHP. No matter where I looked, the only openings were for PHP jobs. Nobody cared about anything else.

So, I learned PHP.
I hated it.

Eventually I got tired of it and started learning Ruby. I picked up an IT job to pay the bills, and from there went on to being the network admin, sysadmin, and domain admin. Yes, all at the same time. The IT department consisted of only two of us, and we could have easily found work for ten. I continued learning Ruby from there, and eventually moved from that mess of responsibilities to being a Ruby/Rails dev, along with some VB projects (yuck).

Ever since, it feels like the only jobs I’ve been able to find have been Rails, despite everything else on my resume. (C++, extensive game dev and design, dev management, sys/network/domain admin, PHP, Perl, VB, JS/React/Angular, SQL, etc.)

Now, I feel like I’m stuck being a Rails dev. I don’t mind quite so much because I really do love Ruby, but apart from that I hate the idea.

Oh damn LabView. I'm sorry you have to deal with this.