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42 is not too old to become an engineer or computer programmer or whatever. Don't let ageism be the next barrier after sexism and religion and the expectations
by andrewstuart 2y ago
42 is not too old to become an engineer or computer programmer or whatever.
Don't let ageism be the next barrier after sexism and religion and the expectations of others.
No-one can stop you doing what you want to do. Many careers require others to give you the chance to practice your chosen career - not computing - start learning and doing it.
Start now, do it.
- lupusreal 2y agoIf it's anything like learning a second language, then old people can sometimes successfully do it but the odds of success are a lot better for younger people.
- andrewstuart 2y ago>> old people can sometimes successfully do it but the odds of success are a lot better for younger people. Yeah that's garbage. The whole point of the original post is this woman has been fed a bunch of discriminatory sexist bullshit about what women can and cannot do. And now you jump in to tell us your discriminatory lies about what young people versus older people can do. You can take your ageism and discrimination elsewhere.
- Aeolun 2y agoI mean, I'm 36. Motivating myself to learn new shit at this point is getting harder and harder. Extensions of what I already know? Sure, but entirely new things?
- lupusreal 2y agoThe relationship between language acquisition and age is well studied and widely acknowledged by both the scientific community and the general population. Your characterization of this relationship as "discriminatory lies" is both a violation of this website's commenting policies and flatly absurd.