It sounds like the author had expected his existing skills to remain relevant for a very long time. It's certainly a slog keeping up with change in the softwar

It sounds like the author had expected his existing skills to remain relevant for a very long time. It's certainly a slog keeping up with change in the software industry. It's not just that things keep changing, it's that the wheel keeps being reinvented and that's just tedious. I remember working with an older programmer when I was about 30 who was retraining as a lawyer. He said he was just bored with having to learn essentially the same things but in different forms over and over again.