> You have to keep learning. This is where people either fail or succeed. Want to spend the weekends with your kids riding horses and not working on your skill

> You have to keep learning. This is where people either fail or succeed. Want to spend the weekends with your kids riding horses and not working on your skills? That's fine, but it will affect your ability to be hired. It's not "we're not hiring you because you're old" it's "we're not hiring you because you don't keep your skills modern." Find a happy median. I'm 34 and started in this field when I was 12. I've seen it for most of my life. I have zero fears of being 40 and not getting work unless I get detached from it and start focusing on other things. I was a sysadmin for a long time, I was a network engineer for a long time. Now I work on kubernetes. I've had to change my "field" multiple times to stay current and employable. And please don't send me a resume with 20 years of random-old-tech-stuff on it unless it relates to what we're doing.