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I've moved out of coding every day at work because I've gotten 'too senior' but my goal is to move jobs to get back into it and probably spend at least the next
by gardenhedge 4y ago
I've moved out of coding every day at work because I've gotten 'too senior' but my goal is to move jobs to get back into it and probably spend at least the next 5 years coding. What I do now is so high level that I can't see myself doing it for the next 25 years.
That will bring me close enough to 40. I don't really see me stopping coding then.
- distances 4y agoI don't get why you'd be too senior to code if you like it. And I was very surprised to see the article author calling himself an aging programmer already at 40. I'm fast approaching that age and I feel I'm more productive than ever. At some point reading articles like this I was mildly worried about being employable as a programmer later in life. But not any longer. The amount of work seems to be ever increasing, and open positions get filled with middling talent at the face of persistent lack of skilled programmers. Seems like anyone with even a sprinkling of motivation and passion will not go without work for long.
- gardenhedge 4y ago> I don't get why you'd be too senior to code if you like it. I don't get it either but at the company I am in.. everyone moves into positions where they code very little. It causes a lot of problems but that is how it is structured