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Indeed. One needs to have an exit strategy for after 40s. In this case, early 30s would be mid career.
by r0b05 6y ago
Indeed. One needs to have an exit strategy for after 40s.
In this case, early 30s would be mid career.
- virgilp 6y agoAm a programmer. Mid 40s, switched jobs to a better one not long ago(was headhunted/didn't actively look for it). Still coding, don't really plan to stop soon. I guess it depends for everyone, and yes lots of people prefer to go into management, but it's not compulsory by any means.
- dominotw 6y agosame here. I do feel a little embarrassed sometimes that i am being manager by someone 10 yrs younger than me. I have to remind myself to no think like that. Not sure if its cultural/genetic to feel like that or what.
- virgilp 6y agoYou should remind yourself that a good manager is there to support you/ make your job easier and more relevant. A manager is not your master. No manager is embarrassed to have an assistant younger than them, so neither should you be about having a younger manager :) Yes, there's the small "problem" that unlike an assistant, the manager also gets to decide your compensation... but you don't want to be working for managers that look for yes-men. There's no winning in that position, those kind of persons are seldom competent and will only drag you down; better find out sooner than later, and move out.
- fatnoah 6y agoI'm in the mid-40's, though I went the management route because that's what I enjoy. I recently interviewed at MS and a couple FAANGs and was very happy to see that all of them had people older than me as core members of their tech teams. Now, on the startup side of things, I'm pretty sure I had domain names older than nearly all of my interviewers.
- jki275 6y agoNope. 44, write code every day and don't intend to stop any time soon.