I totally agree. I am 59 years old and have been developing software since 1984. I spent over 17 years with a company writing chemical searching applications in

I totally agree. I am 59 years old and have been developing software since 1984. I spent over 17 years with a company writing chemical searching applications in C. It was always stimulating and enjoyable. The company was aquired by a venture capital firm that laid off most of the senior developers to cut costs. I had worked for a while as a manager too. I have had to teach myself new technologies I have moved from C to Java and Clojure, from Oracle to Cassandra and Solr. To succeed long term as a developer you must love to learn new technologies.