> (a) avoid income volatility that becomes more unacceptable with age, (b) evade the "job hopper" stigma (a) Ding! I had to drop out of college to support my p

> (a) avoid income volatility that becomes more unacceptable with age, (b) evade the "job hopper" stigma (a) Ding! I had to drop out of college to support my parents. (b) Ding! I stuck around with jobs that made my physically unstable and emotionally depressed because otherwise I would have been unemployable. I was originally an iOS dev, which I love, and I hate Android programming, but I've been forced by circumstance to get reasonably good at it over the past two years. And yet to some of the people I know, I'm the "old" guy, and I haven't even hit my mid-twenties.