I'm not in management -- my philosophy has always been to try to be the tree that stands outside the forest, not the one IN the forest. In management I might ma

I'm not in management -- my philosophy has always been to try to be the tree that stands outside the forest, not the one IN the forest. In management I might make a good manager, or perhaps a crap, or average one, and where is my edge there? My guess is that I'd be pretty average or less, given my patience threshold -- I've worked with fantastic managers before, I'm not them. I don't think there's much of a problem of age discrimination in managements, unless it's for places like startups and so on where "people" NEEDS to "look cool and startupy". I'm a pretty effective mentor tho, and I seriously enjoy that -- I think it's a lot more "my place" than trying to manage/herd cats :-)