I would qualify myself as an "expert programmer" given your scale, and it actually took me 2-3 weeks to find a job last year. It did take me six months to find

I would qualify myself as an "expert programmer" given your scale, and it actually took me 2-3 weeks to find a job last year. It did take me six months to find a "senior level" job two years back though. My point is that it mostly depends on the economic circumstances and it's not quite correct to assume that people will specialize as they grow older - differently from the past, where IBM was giving away 10-year and 20-year presents, nowadays the average tenure at a company is about 3 years, and much shorter in younger companies and startups. The economic incentive is to be versatile, so that's what people get good at.