In my view, it's not ageism that's the problem. It's the questionable paradigm of the annual raise. Over the course of the years, a developer's salary will incr

In my view, it's not ageism that's the problem. It's the questionable paradigm of the annual raise. Over the course of the years, a developer's salary will increase steadily, and make her more and more expensive and less competitive against less experienced developers. If you're willing to take a junior dev position for junior dev pay, I would think that in general you won't be disadvantaged because it's your second career.