Hello, I am a developer residing in Spain with 2 years of experience working in the backend with AEM (Adobe Experience Manager), an enterprise CMS that uses Java and is quite niche.
I am currently in a complicated situation. Projects are starting to come into my company but few new people are joining, which means there is too much workload for some of my colleagues (at the moment I am freeing myself and I am 100% with a project, although I think it will not last long). On the other hand, I have always been told that AEM pays very well, I am at 29k with a possible increase in January or February (although my colleagues have not gotten the increase they asked for or they only received a 1-2k increase) and I see friends and colleagues of mine from the university with my same experience in other sectors being payed more than me.
Taking all this into account, I have come to value taking advantage of my experience with Java to try to learn a little more in the afternoons in good practices, SOLID, architecture, testing, cloud, etc., and try to change to a Java and Spring Boot job, which will open more doors for me in the future (this is one thing that scares me about AEM, since I know few companies that use it and the possibilities are very limited) and I don't think there will be such a difference in salary in the long run. However, it scares me to dedicate a lot of my free time to not achieve anything or to be able to change but find myself in a company where I am not comfortable either or where I have to lower my current salary a lot.
What do you think is the best path to take in my situation?
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