> For developers who are ~35 and up, almost 100% true I'll come up with one of the few exceptions to the rule, i.e. me. I'm in my very early 40s and I went in

> For developers who are ~35 and up, almost 100% true I'll come up with one of the few exceptions to the rule, i.e. me. I'm in my very early 40s and I went in it for the money 20+ years ago, I hadn't even played with a computer as a kid or as a teenager for the simple reason that my parents couldn't afford to purchase me one (and I wasn't really thinking of becoming a computer programmer back as a teenager, I found the work boring). Pretty soon though I discovered that I liked this, I even, in a way, avoided a career path that would have brought me into larger companies so into management (I think it's harder to remain a computer programmer in a larger company once you pass a certain age, I can't explain the reason for why that happens). Either way, I'm almost 100% sure that no-one can spend 15-20-30 years in this job if they don't like it, i.e. only for the money alone, at times it can be really draining on one's mental condition.