this is going to get more and more common. There is a massive demographic cliff of retiring boomers with advanced technology skills that can’t be readily replac

this is going to get more and more common. There is a massive demographic cliff of retiring boomers with advanced technology skills that can’t be readily replaced. My recommendation if you are older than 40 is to be working at high quality small to medium sized enterprises. And work for people who are around your same age. Big companies are a terrible place to be. They can afford not to care. They will just hire more minions to swarm your area and replace you. The nastiest political wars are among middle managers. I would guess Spacex has a general strategy internally around this exact scenario. Or a playbook for doing this. If someone is flagged as boomer, they pack juniors and shadows on them to drain wherever expertise they can. I don’t know what to say - more and more boomers will retire and companies are going to treat them like outgoing tumors. Technology industry does not have any graceful ways to see aging workers out other than to strip them for spare parts pre emptively. This is ugly stuff but I have seen it play out and been on the receiving end of it myself. The good news is with demographic issues maybe companies have to get better at this.