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Dan, what do you mean by ^context shifting?^ Switching from one problem in a different area to another problem?

• danieltillett 9y ago
  Yes. As you get older this gets much harder (I know from personal experience). I wish it were otherwise, but like grey hair and wrinkles it seems just part of getting older.
  • ams6110 9y ago
    Well I'm 50 and my job involves a lot of context shifting, solving sudden problems with systems I'm not an expert at (thus requiring research) and generally being a jack of all trades. I find it easier to do now than I did when I was younger, I see it as just what the job is. When I was younger, a sudden demand to do something different would have me annoyed because it was distracting me from what I really wanted to be working on. Now I know that everything will be different in 5 or 10 years, so it doesn't really matter what I'm working on as it will be irrelevant soon.
    • danieltillett 9y ago
      Do you find it easier than when you were young or are you just more accepting now that it is required? My job requires a ton of rapid context switching, but I do find it much harder now than when I was younger (I am 46).