It’s a nice article, but I think it’s a little privileged as well. I’m only on my 40ies and I see a lot of it in myself. I was lucky enough to get to do some wo

It’s a nice article, but I think it’s a little privileged as well. I’m only on my 40ies and I see a lot of it in myself. I was lucky enough to get to do some work that had a national impact in my early 30ies and I was well on my way to a career in management before I found out I didn’t really care about that. So I went back to programming, and still being fortunate, I’ve been able to find work at places that let me avoid too much project management and other things I dislike. But that’s privileged, and while you may be fortunate enough to find yourself in those situations, or even in one where you can chose whether you want to retire or not, that’s not really how life is for most people. I’m not sure how this article will read for people who don’t have the choice. If I could only get jobs that requires a lot of time-management in Atlassian, or whatever PM tools you use to torture developers, I’d burn out, not because I didn’t know what motivated me but because I had to earn money by dealing with what was available to me. I imagine it’s even worse for people who aren’t in a line of work that is a buyers market. I’m all aboard the “don’t let age stop you” thing that the article also preaches, and I hope you and I get to be lucky enough to live the life where we can continue doing what we like well into our retirement ages, but realistically, a lot of us won’t.