Besides management, the other obvious answers are consulting (that one might be antifragile) and defense contractors. If you want a steady paycheck for software

Besides management, the other obvious answers are consulting (that one might be antifragile) and defense contractors. If you want a steady paycheck for software engineering, I suppose that last possibility is for you. To put that in concrete terms, here is a "Who is hiring?" post for a place that has people at least into their 60s, maybe older: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19055183 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19055183