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I have picked up a new hobby of playing piano. I bought the Piano for All course and I'm enjoying going through the chapters and practicing them every day. I'd like to take it to the next level. I'm looking for recommendations on tutorials, courses etc. which I can use to learn sheet music.

This is not something new, but lately I have observed this behavior to be the in-thing with certain roles.

I am feeling more and more frustrated with the way things are done these days. I find project management done using JIRA to be a complete drag on productivity, creativity and quality. The entire way of working seems like an assembly line and the daily answer to "are we there yet?" is highly counter productive.

I am confused. Let me explain.

I have been a software developer for around 20 years. I started writing software commercially after high school.

I am in my forties and since last 3 years I've been heavily involved with AngularJS. Even though I have been working with AngularJS for some time, I feel that soon time will come when companies will move away from Angular. This is already happening. React seems to be where everyone is heading.

At time I feel that I should just give up chasing new fads and maybe get myself into something more long term. What should that be? I'm not able to figure out. Should I get myself into Python or perhaps a data technolgy. Or should I continue going after the latest JS framework which most likely be taken over by the next latest and greatest?

I enjoy my work and I feel that software development is my true calling. Out of frustration at times I decided to change my occupation but one look at code or reading about some latest technology has pulled me straight back in.