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Also 58 and working as an SRE at a company I love. Greybeards unite!

• lproven 8y ago
  I have a tiny handful of friends in IT older than I whose careers are still thriving in the UK. Most are specialists of some kind. I wish them well. For the first >50% of my career, my speciality was that I wasn't a specialist. I can work anything with a keyboard and a display, fix it, tune it, make it talk to anything else, or at a push virtualise it. But that's an obsolete skill in the near-monoculture of today, when IT means Unix, Windows and nothing else, talking Internet protocols. It's all boring now. Usefully, though, I also write, so I changed course and became a tech writer. That's working out OK so far.
  • markbnj 8y ago
    Well I think it is far from boring. The growth of cloud platforms, containerization, orchestration, there's a lot going on.