Your degree and work experience are huge assets, and it would be wise to leverage them. It's too bad that you got burned on your first job, but there are huge differences across jobs. If you don't like learning new tech you can find many jobs where it's not required (government and bigger companies). Even if you decide you don't want to do coding, you can leverage your education, experience, and tenure at a company into adjacent roles (product manager, manager, business intelligence, DBA, QA, etc.).
giantg2|1 year ago
I'm this economy? Even a few years ago that those qualifications were the minimum to not go into the shredder.
Yes, the adjacent roles might be a better option in some ways. However, you'll get bored and burnt out in most of those too.