I'm on the cusp of 50, taught myself programming 1980ish or so. Went to college after already working in the industry. Actually switched across various industri

I'm on the cusp of 50, taught myself programming 1980ish or so. Went to college after already working in the industry. Actually switched across various industries: finance, journalism, defense, real estate. I also teach college, am a kung fu instructor with as much experience as I do with programming. Serious, though amateur, Mongol historian. Cut my teeth for a decade or two professionally programming C++ before switching to other languages. (Go, Python, Rust, others...) And I recently changed from Back End Engineer to Data Engineer. So yeah, this article is basically on the nose.