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I'm 14. Am I too old for a career in tech?

14 points by abdelhamidem 5y ago

tonis2 5y ago
kbrannigan 5y ago
That's way too old. Did they perform the rituals? 3 days after your birth, you need to Drink water soaked in raspberry pis. By age one, you need to learn how to say mama in binary.
shove 5y ago
Considering the emotional maturity of your theoretical co-workers and managers? Definitely a question worth considering. ;)
null_deref 5y ago
When I was your age I rode my very first unicorn
iamwpj 5y ago
Hey man, I'm 15 and never missed a beat.
mindcrime 5y ago
That depends. Can you invert a binary tree, in Brainfuck, while standing on your head, and simultaneously writing a new OS in Rust, all while a traditional big-top circus show goes on around you? If so, you might be suitable for a career in tech, despite your advanced age...
tmnstr85 5y ago
Our assumption is that you already have 20 years of experience in a language that is only 10 years old. Please submit a resume, retype everything in the resume into our form and then cry in defeat after the form crashes on the employers website.
capdeck 5y ago
All the code that humanity needs has already been written. Even if you were younger, you'd still be late - there is nothing else to code.
- theandrewbailey 5y ago
  Not even close. We need more programmers to write javascript to make websites even slower.
robthebrew 5y ago
I was blowing things up at your age. Became a chemist, then changed to brewer, then hacker. Go for whatever is your thing.
topkai22 5y ago
Too seriously answer about ageism to what is probably an unserious question, no. In fact, I've seen plenty of late (30 and 40+) career changers have happy, solid 2nd careers as programmers. I can't say I remember anyone shifting into a career in programming at 50+ (at least not since the very beginning of my career) but I have seen people move over to programming adjacent roles like PM, sales, or people management (typically within a company.) I'll caveat all the with I've never lived in the bay area and that particular mileu seems to be "special".
jdrc 5y ago
Yes you definitely are. I m afraid by the time you become of legal age tech will have become completely automated and the few remaining tech workers will be borderline suicidal. Becoming a programmer or a driver in 2022 is no longer an option, sorry. You should look into biotechnology instead, much brighter future there.

14 points by abdelhamidem 5y ago

That's way too old. Did they perform the rituals? 3 days after your birth, you need to Drink water soaked in raspberry pis. By age one, you need to learn how to say mama in binary.

shove 5y ago

Considering the emotional maturity of your theoretical co-workers and managers? Definitely a question worth considering. ;)

null_deref 5y ago

When I was your age I rode my very first unicorn

iamwpj 5y ago

Hey man, I'm 15 and never missed a beat.

mindcrime 5y ago

That depends. Can you invert a binary tree, in Brainfuck, while standing on your head, and simultaneously writing a new OS in Rust, all while a traditional big-top circus show goes on around you? If so, you might be suitable for a career in tech, despite your advanced age...

tmnstr85 5y ago

Our assumption is that you already have 20 years of experience in a language that is only 10 years old. Please submit a resume, retype everything in the resume into our form and then cry in defeat after the form crashes on the employers website.

capdeck 5y ago

All the code that humanity needs has already been written. Even if you were younger, you'd still be late - there is nothing else to code.

theandrewbailey 5y ago
Not even close. We need more programmers to write javascript to make websites even slower.

robthebrew 5y ago

I was blowing things up at your age. Became a chemist, then changed to brewer, then hacker. Go for whatever is your thing.

topkai22 5y ago

Too seriously answer about ageism to what is probably an unserious question, no. In fact, I've seen plenty of late (30 and 40+) career changers have happy, solid 2nd careers as programmers. I can't say I remember anyone shifting into a career in programming at 50+ (at least not since the very beginning of my career) but I have seen people move over to programming adjacent roles like PM, sales, or people management (typically within a company.) I'll caveat all the with I've never lived in the bay area and that particular mileu seems to be "special".

jdrc 5y ago

Yes you definitely are. I m afraid by the time you become of legal age tech will have become completely automated and the few remaining tech workers will be borderline suicidal. Becoming a programmer or a driver in 2022 is no longer an option, sorry. You should look into biotechnology instead, much brighter future there.