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A lot of dev careers do fizzle out as you approach 40 but it's not necessarily due to agism. Speaking from experience, it's typically because around that time a
by ryandvm 5y ago
A lot of dev careers do fizzle out as you approach 40 but it's not necessarily due to agism. Speaking from experience, it's typically because around that time a lot of developers start shifting their priorities.
For me personally, it amounted to wanting to maximize the amount of time I spend with my family. It takes a lot of night/weekend cycles to keep up with the tech fad treadmill. When you have the choice between bonding with your kids or learning about React's most recent paradigm-shift, well, the choice is easy for me.
It also doesn't help that at 40 years old there's a good chance you're going to be hitting that regularly scheduled mid-life crisis and you start realizing that most modern software development is hard to beat for pointlessness.
- tabtab 5y ago> and you start realizing that most modern software development is hard to beat for pointlessness. Indeed. It's kind of like gradually getting the Red Pill and realizing IT is mostly a fashion game where the hammers and screwdrivers often change for the sake of change alone. It's hard to stay enthusiastic and motivated when you know it's mostly a buzzword game.