My personal experience is that it becomes tougher to find a full time programming position after about 40. Like hga, I look younger than my age but that is star

My personal experience is that it becomes tougher to find a full time programming position after about 40. Like hga, I look younger than my age but that is starting to fail as I get older. I haven't resorted to scrubbing my resume yet but I've considered it. I mostly do contracting now. It avoids many of the issues of trying to get hired after 40. For short term gigs, fewer managers care about your age. I prefer contracting so that works out well for me. I will have to come up with a strategy for dealing with age discrimination since I've tried other jobs and hated them. I'm a programmer and it is pretty much all I want to do. My short stint as a manager was pretty much a failure and I really didn't find anything I liked about it.