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"What makes people your age think you'll be able to keep your jobs?" Blind optimism? I don't really have alternatives. I do think there will be a potential for

• hga 13y ago
  If you have any talent or desire, you might want to add a bit of sysadmin work, especially setting up systems (in my case, I start with building them from "scratch", but I like that sort of thing). I.e. broaden your problem solving scope. In small companies I also generally took over the duty of doing backups, it's something I like to do and its importance cannot be overstated. If you have the aptitude for consulting (I'm too much of an introvert to do that), yep, that's the classic thing to transition to. Other options are embedded and seriously classified work. We're now going on two decades of bias against older programmers ... that hope may be misfounded (well, unless it's some young idiot that makes the first mistake that kills tens of thousands of people, the only thing that will substantially change our field in my opinion). It would be really nice if this changes, though. It would certainly be good for our field, then again, a counterpoint to the embedded recommendation is that device manufacturers have now trained us very well in the art of resetting borked devices....