I'm 42 now, still highly employable, although not at all companies. And that's fine. They want someone who can churn out cheap but perhaps not so good code, mor

I'm 42 now, still highly employable, although not at all companies. And that's fine. They want someone who can churn out cheap but perhaps not so good code, more power to them. That's not what I'm interested in, anyway. But I know what I'm worth. I know that my code is top notch. I know that my standards are above most things out there, and it shows. I've released almost half a million lines of code for free as open source projects. I've gotten emails from people in the most remarkable industries, asking questions about something I'd written decades ago (for example, http://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/sunsite/system/network/daemons/ringconnectd.lsm http://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/sunsite/system/network/daemons/...). I've posted the more useful of them to my github account, and that's the first place potential employers look to see if I'm worth my fee. And I am. Age only becomes a problem if you stop drilling down into the technologies people use and REALLY understand them, and what lies underneath. Otherwise you really aren't worth any more than the guys coming out of college with no experience.