Hm. I think my choice of words weren't adequate to describe my situation.
It's not that I don't know how to do other things. It's that the things that I'm capable of doing put me in a narrow niche. With a long-standing back injury and medical problems resulting from exposure to chemical allergens, there's very little work I can do in the light industrial sector.
I have training as a carpenter (and I can do everything from foundation and framing to roofing and finishing - I have the training), but I'm no longer physically able to do it.
The list of programming environments I'm comfortable in is quite long, too. It's just that my choices are PHP, C#, and Ruby. And the PHP guys are the only ones hiring. I really should move to Seattle or something, but the cost of just getting there is a little over what I can do.
It's not that I don't know how to do other things. It's that the things that I'm capable of doing put me in a narrow niche. With a long-standing back injury and medical problems resulting from exposure to chemical allergens, there's very little work I can do in the light industrial sector.
I have training as a carpenter (and I can do everything from foundation and framing to roofing and finishing - I have the training), but I'm no longer physically able to do it.
The list of programming environments I'm comfortable in is quite long, too. It's just that my choices are PHP, C#, and Ruby. And the PHP guys are the only ones hiring. I really should move to Seattle or something, but the cost of just getting there is a little over what I can do.