I am less driven by the prospect of becoming an old expensive programmer, and more concerned about missing out on gaining management experience. I have converse

I am less driven by the prospect of becoming an old expensive programmer, and more concerned about missing out on gaining management experience. I have conversed with many programmers who express concern that they have no management aspirations, and yet the longer they remain pure programmers, they find they have fewer options as they age, instead, as one might imagine, more. Maybe it's because it's harder to convince a 40-year old programmer to work bullshit hours for a few slices of free pizza.