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If I’ve ever seen a clickbait title, then this is it. I’ve been coding for 25years. Trust me, learning coding after 40 is not going to give you financial freed

If I’ve ever seen a clickbait title, then this is it. I’ve been coding for 25years. Trust me, learning coding after 40 is not going to give you financial freedom or chance to build your own business it SaaS it whatever. The best it can do is give you a 10-6 job, since programmers have usually more flexible hours. All these stories from indie hackers are like stories from people who won the lottery. Yes, there are people who made it, but for each one of them there are tens, if not hundreds, of thousands who failed miserably. Or maybe it’s just sour grapes from my side. But that’s how I see it.

imartin2k 9y ago
So your recipe for "success" in life is to ignore the inspirational power of stories from those who beat the odds? What's that good for?
- noncoml 9y ago
  My recipe for survival is staying away from anyone trying to prey of hope and desperation. That’s what all these bootcamps do. Learning to code at 40 to leave your 9-5 job is the worst advice one can give to someone.
  - imartin2k 9y ago
    Well, that's not really the author's advice, considering that he writes: "I wouldn't recommend quitting your job like I did. Especially, if you have an idea only. Test it first. Most probably, you have a lot of 'hidden' free time so you can test it while keeping your day job." If your point is that bootcamps generally are waste of time and money, and you suspect that the author just wants to promote his bootcamp, then that's a different thing of course.
mojo_juju 9y ago
"All these stories from indie hackers are like stories from people who won the lottery." I think it would be more of a spectrum, considering success isn't necessarily "won". It's a confluence of controllable and uncontrollable factors. The results of which represent a spectrum of value (output) and input (factors). Age is merely one of the factors involved in human productivity, and not necessarily the most important (the equation of coefficients affecting each factor would change over time of course).

imartin2k 9y ago

So your recipe for "success" in life is to ignore the inspirational power of stories from those who beat the odds? What's that good for?

noncoml 9y ago
My recipe for survival is staying away from anyone trying to prey of hope and desperation. That’s what all these bootcamps do. Learning to code at 40 to leave your 9-5 job is the worst advice one can give to someone.
- imartin2k 9y ago
  Well, that's not really the author's advice, considering that he writes: "I wouldn't recommend quitting your job like I did. Especially, if you have an idea only. Test it first. Most probably, you have a lot of 'hidden' free time so you can test it while keeping your day job." If your point is that bootcamps generally are waste of time and money, and you suspect that the author just wants to promote his bootcamp, then that's a different thing of course.

mojo_juju 9y ago

"All these stories from indie hackers are like stories from people who won the lottery." I think it would be more of a spectrum, considering success isn't necessarily "won". It's a confluence of controllable and uncontrollable factors. The results of which represent a spectrum of value (output) and input (factors). Age is merely one of the factors involved in human productivity, and not necessarily the most important (the equation of coefficients affecting each factor would change over time of course).