When your company asks you to switch tech stacks at 36, what would you do?

Hey folks,
I’m in a weird career spot and could use some honest opinions.

I’m 36 with ~9.5 years of experience:

• Backend: PHP, Laravel, CodeIgniter, MySQL (major focus)
• Some years: Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL
• Frontend: jQuery (a lot), some React.js

Until recently, I was working remotely for a company in another city. They said they have no PHP projects anymore and didn’t want me for full-stack MERN/PERN roles — maybe because of my background.

They offered me a chance to move into Salesforce so I could stay longer, and I agreed. I’ve started learning it, thinking it could be good for the future.

Now there’s a new project in my city, and they’ve got another Salesforce dev with 6+ years of experience. My boss treats him as the technical lead, and I’ve been told I’ll be a coordinator for the L3 support team with some dev tasks. Honestly, I’m feeling more like a junior again — which is a hit to my confidence.

My choices seem to be:

• Option 1: Resign and find a new role in my core stack (PHP/Node.js), but many openings want immediate joiners.
• Option 2: Stay, keep learning Salesforce, swallow the ego hit, and aim for long-term growth. Friends say Salesforce is a solid career move.

If you were in my shoes, what would you do? Stick around and skill up in Salesforce, or start job hunting now?

Thanks in advance.