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Health, lack of energy and cognitive decline, all good points. Yet, it doesn't have to be that way in your forties. Both candidates running for the Presidency

Health, lack of energy and cognitive decline, all good points. Yet, it doesn't have to be that way in your forties. Both candidates running for the Presidency, and both Vice President candidates are older than 40 (Paul Ryan barely so) and have tonnes of energy. The right takeaway might be that you need to actively focus on your health as you grow older. Sounds like good advice for anyone, programmer or not. (downvoted? wtf? )

tsotha 14y ago
>Yet, it doesn't have to be that way in your forties. I'm not saying once you hit your 40s you're useless, just that you're a bit slower than you were. From a company's perspective it makes a lot more sense to hire people who are younger - that's just playing the odds. >Both candidates running for the Presidency, and both Vice President candidates are older than 40 (Paul Ryan barely so) and have tonnes of energy. How would you know? Those guys have staffs to handle every conceivable need so they can use all the energy they have in public.
kamaal 14y ago
You are being down voted for a reason. You are pointing examples of professions, where people take risky decisions but do not do heavy lifting themselves. In such professions experience counts. If you have to hire an army of java programmers to finish a MegaCorp project in an year. Are you going to hire 25 year old or 50 year olds? Considering the bulk of the work hardly involves any risky decision making and most of it is actually working 16 hours a day?
- plinkplonk 14y ago
  but I didn't say anything about programming. Just that being in your forties (vs say your sixties) you don't have to be dumb and slow. But whatever. I was just puzzled as to why someone would want to downvote the idea that you can be alert and sharp in your forties.
  - kamaal 14y ago
    Absolutely not, if you are worth your salt you can work hard at any age. But the word isn't can, its will. The question you have to ask is will I work hard instead of can I work hard. The answer to the can question is yes. Unless you are disabled or have other serious problems you can work hard, but will you? Or will everybody else?

tsotha 14y ago

>Yet, it doesn't have to be that way in your forties. I'm not saying once you hit your 40s you're useless, just that you're a bit slower than you were. From a company's perspective it makes a lot more sense to hire people who are younger - that's just playing the odds. >Both candidates running for the Presidency, and both Vice President candidates are older than 40 (Paul Ryan barely so) and have tonnes of energy. How would you know? Those guys have staffs to handle every conceivable need so they can use all the energy they have in public.

kamaal 14y ago

You are being down voted for a reason. You are pointing examples of professions, where people take risky decisions but do not do heavy lifting themselves. In such professions experience counts. If you have to hire an army of java programmers to finish a MegaCorp project in an year. Are you going to hire 25 year old or 50 year olds? Considering the bulk of the work hardly involves any risky decision making and most of it is actually working 16 hours a day?

plinkplonk 14y ago
but I didn't say anything about programming. Just that being in your forties (vs say your sixties) you don't have to be dumb and slow. But whatever. I was just puzzled as to why someone would want to downvote the idea that you can be alert and sharp in your forties.
- kamaal 14y ago
  Absolutely not, if you are worth your salt you can work hard at any age. But the word isn't can, its will. The question you have to ask is will I work hard instead of can I work hard. The answer to the can question is yes. Unless you are disabled or have other serious problems you can work hard, but will you? Or will everybody else?