>I'm near Detroit which has a huge amount of auto industry, and engineering pay is good across pretty much all disciplines.
I dunno about Detroit since I don't live there, but in Europe the auto industry is on a major downturn with cost cutting, layoffs and hiring freezes. Good luck getting hired anywhere now if you're laid off from the Auto industry and your specialty is some niche stuff only used in the auto industry. Also, IIRC, the company I worked for recently laid off 35% staff at their Auburn Hills office overnight so I doubt the situation around Detroit is as rosy as you make it seem.
> If it's such a major adjustment coming from C/C++ that it's actually causing you trouble, you have other problems.
Like I said, there should be no problem for a (skilled) programmer to adjust from C++ to Ada or vice versa, the problem is convincing HR to hire you on that premise. Ask me how I know (see my username).
Gone are the days of the SW generalists programmer, who would be hired with the expectation to learn on the job the new language used at that job, companies now are only looking for people with X on-the-job YoE on that programming language or framework, not self taught people coming from other programing languages.
This is not something you can control, it's the hiring market that's broken, so you can only adapt to it by not pigeonholing yourself in things that might be a career dead-end.
>It's comical bringing up the automotive industry considering that its responsible for AUTOSAR
AUTOSAR did what it was supposed to do: be a vendor lock in program for German bureaucratic companies and job security program for workers in that industry. That's what Germany and German companies do best: create massive amounts of bureaucracy requirements as a moat for an industry they have a foothold in, then sell you the solution. Why do you think SAP is also German?
I dunno about Detroit since I don't live there, but in Europe the auto industry is on a major downturn with cost cutting, layoffs and hiring freezes. Good luck getting hired anywhere now if you're laid off from the Auto industry and your specialty is some niche stuff only used in the auto industry. Also, IIRC, the company I worked for recently laid off 35% staff at their Auburn Hills office overnight so I doubt the situation around Detroit is as rosy as you make it seem.
> If it's such a major adjustment coming from C/C++ that it's actually causing you trouble, you have other problems.
Like I said, there should be no problem for a (skilled) programmer to adjust from C++ to Ada or vice versa, the problem is convincing HR to hire you on that premise. Ask me how I know (see my username).
Gone are the days of the SW generalists programmer, who would be hired with the expectation to learn on the job the new language used at that job, companies now are only looking for people with X on-the-job YoE on that programming language or framework, not self taught people coming from other programing languages.
This is not something you can control, it's the hiring market that's broken, so you can only adapt to it by not pigeonholing yourself in things that might be a career dead-end.
>It's comical bringing up the automotive industry considering that its responsible for AUTOSAR
AUTOSAR did what it was supposed to do: be a vendor lock in program for German bureaucratic companies and job security program for workers in that industry. That's what Germany and German companies do best: create massive amounts of bureaucracy requirements as a moat for an industry they have a foothold in, then sell you the solution. Why do you think SAP is also German?