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May I ask what you did previously in your career, was it related, sys admin or similar, or did you move to devops more recently? I'm getting close to 50 and I
by w3mmpp 7y ago
May I ask what you did previously in your career, was it related, sys admin or similar, or did you move to devops more recently?
I'm getting close to 50 and I have to admit, I'm wondering what employment looks like after 50 for people in our industry.
- markbnj 7y agoI started professionally as a c++ programmer, and have worked in a few different languages, on a few different platforms since. This job is my first devops position and I wasn't actually looking for devops roles when it was offered to me. I was interviewing for a back end engineering position and the head of the devops/SRE group saw some things in my profile that he was looking for and reached out. Fwiw I'm almost through the "after 50" part and getting close to the "after 60" part and I haven't had a problem finding things to do. The key is to stay engaged and learning all the time.
- w3mmpp 7y agogreat info thanks, happy to see that people like you, who are not afraid to learn new stuff and integrate that into their long experience is still valuated.