And engineer in his 60 will be worth his weight in gold just for knowing all the ways a project can fail and all the unknown unknowns that can bite you in the a

And engineer in his 60 will be worth his weight in gold just for knowing all the ways a project can fail and all the unknown unknowns that can bite you in the ass. And with every 5 years adding adding another level of abstraction he can be invaluable for hard to debug things that need knowledge what goes where under the hood. That was this guy - now in his late 50s who mentored me as a young whelp - I have seen him open a dump with a hex editor (not dissembler) while tracking a bug, saying - aha a pointer is not initializing correctly and fixing it. Will hire him in a second given the chance.