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>Some people can make it a life long career, I haven't seen that to be the case though So, what, you've literally never met anyone over the age of 40? 50? 60?
by technofiend 8y ago
>Some people can make it a life long career, I haven't seen that to be the case though
So, what, you've literally never met anyone over the age of 40? 50? 60? in IT? I'll bet if you think about it for a moment you probably have. But if you haven't you need to look no farther than Pike and Thompson working at Google for two examples of older people working on interesting problems at a top tier company.
Regardleas I don't share in the cynicism and burn out that some have shared in this thread.
Even if I see some ideas recycled from 20-30 years ago I'd argue the implementations are novel. Frankly the fact that IT keeps changing is what makes it fun for me.
- coldtea 8y ago>So, what, you've literally never met anyone over the age of 40? 50? 60? in IT? I'll bet if you think about it for a moment you probably have. But if you haven't you need to look no farther than Pike and Thompson working at Google for two examples of older people working on interesting problems at a top tier company. Well, there are 60 year old exotic dancers too.
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- maxxxxx 8y ago"I'll bet if you think about it for a moment you probably have. But if you haven't you need to look no farther than Pike and Thompson working at Google for two examples of older people working on interesting problems at a top tier company." I don't think most of us can follow the example of some superstars.
- nineteen999 8y agoOn a more mundane level, IBM was full of older techies and programmers. Until more recently, anyway. In my mid-thirties there I felt like a youngster.