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None of those doors are closed. Its just people become financially and time constrained. Usually by starting a family not by writing software.

kabouseng 8y ago
I didn't say they close because of writing software. They close because of living your life.
MrGilbert 8y ago
Well, some doors are closed forever. With 32, I'm too old to become a police officer in most states in my country, for instance.
- Aeolun 8y ago
  Can only become a police officer if there is still time to indoctrinate you while you are impressionable? Clearly it’s not because of job requirements, since we have 50 year old officers...
  - Haga 8y ago
    Police work has a hidden deal. First 20 years you are shit posted, getting clubbered by Antifa and rightwingers on demonstrations or shot at in some ghetto. The rest of your time you get an office job to limp towards pension.
    - trophycase 8y ago
      Or just responding to domestic disputes all night.
  - cr0sh 8y ago
    I've sometimes thought about this in terms of being in the military, or what it would take for being involved in one of the "TLAs" - so to speak. At 45+ years of age, all of those doors are permanently closed to me. I do think that my thinking on them all is more that of the "romantic notions" of those careers; the reality of them is probably nowhere near as exciting, adventurous, or maybe even as worthwhile, as I might imagine them to have potentially been.
- geggam 8y ago
  If you are in IT you are likely too smart to be a cop
  - distances 8y ago
    Where I'm from, the basic police education is a three year bachelor's degree with admittance rate of about 7% of applicants.
    - geggam 8y ago
      Supreme court ruled you can be too smart to be a cop As a note I think that rate of acceptance is too high. Way too many are getting past the psyche tests and running around bullying society https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-court-ruled-you-can-be-too-smart-to-be-a-cop/5420630 https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-court-ruled-you-can-be-too-...
    - 52-6F-62 8y ago
      Canada (well, Ontario Provincial Police at least) is similar. My brother had a 4 year degree in Criminology and Kinesiology, 7 years+ as a Canadian Armed Forces reservist (including running courses at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston) and he didn't get through at least his first application. It definitely varies.
TeMPOraL 8y ago
You become time-constrained by the very virtue of living. As a 40+ noob, you're worth much less for an employer than a 22-25 noob. You have about the same experience, but younger noobs have more energy, less health problems, much less expectations, much lower costs of living. Also, at 40, you're supposed to be halfway through your expected career; deviating from a standard life looks weird, and from what I can tell, most entry-level jobs don't like weird. Such is the job market.

kabouseng 8y ago

I didn't say they close because of writing software. They close because of living your life.

MrGilbert 8y ago

Well, some doors are closed forever. With 32, I'm too old to become a police officer in most states in my country, for instance.

Aeolun 8y ago
Can only become a police officer if there is still time to indoctrinate you while you are impressionable? Clearly it’s not because of job requirements, since we have 50 year old officers...
- Haga 8y ago
  Police work has a hidden deal. First 20 years you are shit posted, getting clubbered by Antifa and rightwingers on demonstrations or shot at in some ghetto. The rest of your time you get an office job to limp towards pension.
  - trophycase 8y ago
    Or just responding to domestic disputes all night.
- cr0sh 8y ago
  I've sometimes thought about this in terms of being in the military, or what it would take for being involved in one of the "TLAs" - so to speak. At 45+ years of age, all of those doors are permanently closed to me. I do think that my thinking on them all is more that of the "romantic notions" of those careers; the reality of them is probably nowhere near as exciting, adventurous, or maybe even as worthwhile, as I might imagine them to have potentially been.
geggam 8y ago
If you are in IT you are likely too smart to be a cop
- distances 8y ago
  Where I'm from, the basic police education is a three year bachelor's degree with admittance rate of about 7% of applicants.
  - geggam 8y ago
    Supreme court ruled you can be too smart to be a cop As a note I think that rate of acceptance is too high. Way too many are getting past the psyche tests and running around bullying society https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-court-ruled-you-can-be-too-smart-to-be-a-cop/5420630 https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-court-ruled-you-can-be-too-...
  - 52-6F-62 8y ago
    Canada (well, Ontario Provincial Police at least) is similar. My brother had a 4 year degree in Criminology and Kinesiology, 7 years+ as a Canadian Armed Forces reservist (including running courses at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston) and he didn't get through at least his first application. It definitely varies.

TeMPOraL 8y ago

You become time-constrained by the very virtue of living. As a 40+ noob, you're worth much less for an employer than a 22-25 noob. You have about the same experience, but younger noobs have more energy, less health problems, much less expectations, much lower costs of living. Also, at 40, you're supposed to be halfway through your expected career; deviating from a standard life looks weird, and from what I can tell, most entry-level jobs don't like weird. Such is the job market.