If you keep your skills sharp, marketable, and maintain a good attitude, you can get a job at any age. I was a tech recruiter for 9 years, and I saw a lot of o

If you keep your skills sharp, marketable, and maintain a good attitude, you can get a job at any age. I was a tech recruiter for 9 years, and I saw a lot of older candidates get rejected. The reasons they go rejected usually came down to trying to sell themselves on years of experience & coasting on work they had done many years ago. Here are some examples: - if I ask you to tell me a story about cool work you'd done, and the most recent story you can come up with is from 14 years ago, I'm going to ask you come up with a more recent example - if you try to sell me on your 20 years of experience, I'm going to ask you what someone with 20 years of experience can do that someone with 5 years can't do - if you've worked on an older technology for N years and want me to hire you for a modern web development job, trying to selling on how you can learn it is not going to convince me that you want to do it, so when I ask you to show me something you made in something that people actually use these days, I need to see more than a badge you earned on Codecademy - When you try to apply for a development job, I expect you to be a developer now, so if you look like you've been a manager for 10 years, and I ask when the last time you wrote code was, last night is a better answer than last decade - If you want a premium salary, you need premium skills