I had the same trajectory, but in the late 90's. Yet, I find typed languages to be dry now. JS is the wild west and once you learn your way around the minefield, its fun, for me at least.

Coming from a C# background, I fell in love with javascript and reac5lr. But yeah, the limitations of react are starting to get to me. But, I've recently discovered solidjs. Hear me out, imagine react done well. Give it a whirl. Components only render once. Signals for state. It looks really interesting.

Rarely do I read a message full of so much nonsense. I started out in Angular 1.x. Moved to modern Anglular and it was great. Finally took the plunge and built enterprise grade apps with React and React Router. Not only did the teams productivity shoot through the roof, using React and Typescript, the concensus was that Angular has a lot of strange rules and boilerplate to make things work. ViewChild? Uh huh or just pass props to a child component and write any supporting JS needed. I would write more but I imagine this may overload things for you with such a narrow pipeline and you will need an observable to watch what I'm saying and run it through a translation service. I wouldn't want to trigger a digest cycle by putting to many thoughts and concepts out there and causing your thoughts to render infinitely.

Try Sveltejs. Might open you up to something new.

I remember being asked for 5 years experience in BackBoneJs, AngularJs and EmberJS. Ng was still in beta at the time, and Ember was still in Alpha, BackBone was 3, and still on their initial release. When I pointed that out, the guy said I needed the experience regardless. This wasn't a recruiter. This was an actual hiring manager, who, I would say, had no clue about techonlogy or what he was asking me for. THere was a 15 second moment of silence on my end, and I said, Ok, thanks for your time.

Funny, the "Visual" Designer, can't grasp your concept. So build it, and let it come crashing down and let the higher ups deal with her. Whatever happened to getting a design on a napkin and running with it :) And it's never a bad week to quit smoking. The fact that her design already makes you nauseous you might as well go throw the withdrawal now. You'll be glad down the road....about the design and just building it and quiting smoking...Maybe if you have a future craving you can think about that design and shudder..

Front end: JavaScript (Angular, React) Middle: C#, and Node...try it out with EdgeJs and you can have Node consume C#. Backend: Sql Server, but starting to move towards Cassandra and Redis.

I to went back to School at 30 for Programming. Am have a pretty good career going. That being said, why don't you get your education over with, and look for internships or "Work Terms" during your summer months. Better yet, get into a Coop program. I can almost guarantee that the working relationships you make in either one or all of these places, will lead you to be employed. I found in my case that I was hired before I even graduated. Plus, although you might make a small wage in your first work term, if you prove valuable, there's nothing from stopping you from asking for an entry level wage the next time you work for them. It's a great way to gain experience, setup a network,learn how to code in a professional environment and lay the ground work early for a full time position upon graduation. I have never had anyone ask about my education, other than wanting to know if I had a piece of paper. What you will learn in school will give you a foundation, even if the technology may be out of date. If anything it will teach you to learn on your own. Although you appear to have a good head start on that already. Good luck you.

You might want to give win 10 a try. Even win 8. What was so bad about either one of them, other than MS trying to force it down our throats.

What about Dapper?