Indeed, this has been my career path to, I'm in my 50's and have always avoided 'going vertical' as I think of it - becoming a specialist in one little area. St

Indeed, this has been my career path to, I'm in my 50's and have always avoided 'going vertical' as I think of it - becoming a specialist in one little area. Stick to the bread and butter and just keep learning new stuff, really programming hasn't changed much at all if you know C and assembler, and a bit of hardware, know some maths, all the rest is just rearrangement of the words.