One possibility is to chose a specialty that is in high demand, and where you are not competing directly with large numbers of younger people. So, for instance:

One possibility is to chose a specialty that is in high demand, and where you are not competing directly with large numbers of younger people. So, for instance: 1. Don't focus on frontend work. There are large numbers of young people going through development bootcamps and there specializing in front end work. 2. Maybe focus on devops. Right now, in New York City, the top devops people are charging between $200 and $300 an hour. And, in my experience (and with some notable exceptions) devops people tend to be older. But this strategy would require you to push yourself very hard to come up to speed on modern devops, which is a vast subject. It really depends on your own self-discipline. If you don't know much about this topic, you'll need to study 12 hours a day for 6 months to come up to speed. But presumably you already know some of the languages that play a large role. Ideally, you already know Python, as Ansible still plays a large role in devops.