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Great for the upside of growth - how do you change it for when you start to age and skills erode a little bit. That would be deeply frustrating. Need to chang
by boringg 3y ago
Great for the upside of growth - how do you change it for when you start to age and skills erode a little bit. That would be deeply frustrating. Need to change the model at that point! What to though?
- smackeyacky 3y agoYour skills don't age like your physical body does.
- Aeolun 3y agoMy existing skills don’t, but learning new ones sure takes more effort.
- bregma 3y agoIt's not the effort of learning, it's the effort of tolerating all the know-it-all newbies that increases.
- KETHERCORTEX 3y agoYou are saying it like skills aren't contained in that physical body.
- smackeyacky 3y agoYou can program using a blow stick if you have to. Its a mental ability not a physical one. Unless you get dementia you could do it forever
- oaktowner 3y agoThat is true, but the rapid change in the tech industry makes "skills" mean something different than it would in, say, woodworking. Once you learn woodwoorking, you're going to be good at it (until you lose strength, flexibility in your fingers, etc). In our industry, to 'stay at the same place,' you continually have to learn new technologies, new concepts, etc.
- smackeyacky 3y agoComputer programming isnt like woodworking though, its all in the mind
- swader999 3y agoThe AI helps a bit, I'm feeling a bit recharged with it, like I have a few more extra years of capable contributing in me. Easier to get stuff done, not getting worn out with technical minutia as much. Move more into to people skills and relationships. It could be management, marketing, sales, HR, recruiting, mentoring, training. There's a plethora of side functions. Or take a lower paying less demanding role. Do harder technical work that isn't time constrained like open source or personal projects.