that part is a complete fiction. People who have a lot of experience in the embedded world or performant but esoteric codebases are highly thought after. Even i

that part is a complete fiction. People who have a lot of experience in the embedded world or performant but esoteric codebases are highly thought after. Even if the literal job isn't transferable, the skills for sure are. My mother was a COBOL developer and didn't work for 20 years because she stayed home. She recently returned to her old bank she worked for because they are dragging people out of retirement as they can't find anyone else. She earns more than I do now. People are crazy to give a job like that up for generic web dev work.