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How many more years until i/you/we will be unemployable in tech because we pass our mid 40s?
by gentleman11 5y ago
How many more years until i/you/we will be unemployable in tech because we pass our mid 40s?
- dragonsky 5y agoI've got 60 year old ops people in my workplace, we're certainly going to miss them when they leave. It may be that certain parts of tech consider 30 something to be old, but not everywhere.
- nolroz 5y agoAre you in a particular industry or area that may be more inclusive? I'm not quite 40 but it would be nice to hedge towards long term employment.
- bryanrasmussen 5y agoI found that after I passed around 44 or so I was still employable but pretty much most of the offers were as a consultant.
- xf1cf 5y agoI wrote about this a few posts ago but it's so common to be aged out of tech for any number of reasons that I have no plans to work in it after I turn 40. If I can, great. In all likelihood if I don't make a cushy management job by then it's curtains for me after my stack dries up. I don't have the same motivations I had in my 20s and I don't want to spend my life grinding leetcode to justify my extensive industry CV. It's exhausting and I have a family, life, and interests outside my day job. If it was just simple "retraining" every 5-10 years it wouldn't be such a big deal but every time you leave a company you start from the bottom and have to prove your way back to your position. Academia used to be an out for "overexperienced" people. But it's so competitive even at the community college level in all likelihood you'll be completely aged out. I will probably be punching numbers into TPS reports.