> Most engineers don't stay in the engineering track for long, and there are almost no lifelong engineers. That is absolutely absurd. Plenty of tech titans an

> Most engineers don't stay in the engineering track for long, and there are almost no lifelong engineers. That is absolutely absurd. Plenty of tech titans and small startups have architects and senior devs in their 40's and up (I'm one, and at trade conferences I'm hardly even an outlier). Not to mention that 90% of the industry is in the "enterprise" world (seemingly invisible to much of HN's readership), which is largely composed of devs in their 40's, 50's, and 60's. The high-octane older guys often go into consulting in their later years, where they're billing at $200-400+ an hour while giving technical direction to a team of warm bodies fresh out of school (or off the boat). If you seriously believe that engineering is something that you do from age 25 to 35, before starting your "real career" in PowerPoint, then that's incredibly sad. Why not just go the MBA route to begin with?