I am in my forties but I have a less bleak outlook; I feel I am only starting out in my career. I think I understand enough (and that's very little; our field i

I am in my forties but I have a less bleak outlook; I feel I am only starting out in my career. I think I understand enough (and that's very little; our field is extremely complex) of software creation and people in general to scale up my influence. I also see companies and people struggle with the creation of software enough to know that we need more 'senior' people and not less. You mention Google; why would you want to work there? There are millions of companies around the world that need programmers acutely and the larger ones of those need architects/experienced software engineers. That many of them cannot fill positions so settle for less because they have to. I'm not sure, besides some FUD online, where you get your depressing future life outlook from? I am asking because I did read some articles about this online, but seems that you hear it everywhere...