TFA hits the most important point: know your strengths. After about 20 years consulting, I moved back into development. I wasn’t a great developer then, and am

TFA hits the most important point: know your strengths. After about 20 years consulting, I moved back into development. I wasn’t a great developer then, and am far far better now. But my coding skill isn’t my strength (somewhat slow, very defensive), my subject expertise (SELinux, ICAM, risk assessment) is. If you have specialty skills, you can be well rewarded, even if you are slower than the youngsters.