It's bad to hear that you don't get work in the Domino world in the UK anymore. Since I'm not living in the UK, I don't have any opinion about that.
All I can say is that in Germany, there IS work for Domino developers. Work for classic Notes development is going downwards, but work for XPages apps is clearly going upwards - at least for us (that is, me and my collegues in my company).
For example we have one new customer how wants to get all of his classic notes apps converted into web based XPages apps - we are talking about hundres of apps here.
There are a lot of companies having developers who speak Notes only yet, but they see that it's neccessary to learn XPages, JavaScript, HTML and CSS - and they are coming to us to ask for training and consulting.
So for you XPages seem to be the wrong way, and if you can make money with ASP.NET and other stuff, do it. In the end, they are all tools to solve business problems. Nothing more. It's vital that a developer is able to understand problems and solve them with the tools he has, if they come from Lotus, Microsoft or someone else does not matter at all.
It's bad to hear that you don't get work in the Domino world in the UK anymore. Since I'm not living in the UK, I don't have any opinion about that.
All I can say is that in Germany, there IS work for Domino developers. Work for classic Notes development is going downwards, but work for XPages apps is clearly going upwards - at least for us (that is, me and my collegues in my company).
For example we have one new customer how wants to get all of his classic notes apps converted into web based XPages apps - we are talking about hundres of apps here.
There are a lot of companies having developers who speak Notes only yet, but they see that it's neccessary to learn XPages, JavaScript, HTML and CSS - and they are coming to us to ask for training and consulting.
So for you XPages seem to be the wrong way, and if you can make money with ASP.NET and other stuff, do it. In the end, they are all tools to solve business problems. Nothing more. It's vital that a developer is able to understand problems and solve them with the tools he has, if they come from Lotus, Microsoft or someone else does not matter at all.