C's not all that popular outside of systems or embedded programming anymore. And embedded is more like C wrappers around ASM, in a lot of cases. There are still legacy C projects to be had, though. It's possible you might find something in that route if you got lucky.
Yeah, I hear you. C++ has that shiny ++, so it must automatically be, like, better.
Honestly, if I could figure out something non-computer-related to do for a living that I was good at, I'd get out of IT altogether. There's too many pinheads, too many people who think buzzwords trump anything else, and too many people who expect to be able to hire Larry Wall for the hourly rate of an Indian summer intern because they could hire an Indian summer intern for that rate, so why not? (Plus, I feel like all my skills have gotten stale, and playing catch-up seems futile when you basically can't get a job without hands-on industry experience within the last year anyway.)
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Honestly, if I could figure out something non-computer-related to do for a living that I was good at, I'd get out of IT altogether. There's too many pinheads, too many people who think buzzwords trump anything else, and too many people who expect to be able to hire Larry Wall for the hourly rate of an Indian summer intern because they could hire an Indian summer intern for that rate, so why not? (Plus, I feel like all my skills have gotten stale, and playing catch-up seems futile when you basically can't get a job without hands-on industry experience within the last year anyway.)