The world dislikes older people. I think it's mostly because they can't match pay. They want people to glue node modules together with AI, not make C++ drivers.

The world dislikes older people. I think it's mostly because they can't match pay. They want people to glue node modules together with AI, not make C++ drivers. Someone with 2 years of experience writing glue code and willing to be paid as an intermediate would take priority. There's probably new stuff where that might be useful. Drones maybe. Also these humanoid bots are being well funded, there's probably some work there. Due to global politics, things are also shifting away from both China and the US and new factories are popping up in all kinds of semi-neutral countries. I expect these places might also be the kind you'd work on. There's a chip boom going on in SE Asia with Chinese companies using places like Malaysia as a proxy to sell to US. It may fit your semiconductor experience.