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Like other responders, I question your statement "...I might not be as effective as I once was.". Judgement based on long experience can be enormously valuable
by ridgeguy 12y ago
Like other responders, I question your statement "...I might not be as effective as I once was.".
Judgement based on long experience can be enormously valuable. You may see in your client's current circumstances a dynamic you worked through 30 years ago. As a result, you may save your client a month or two exploring solutions you know won't work for them.
That's incredibly valuable. Consider that when pricing your services.
- Lendal 12y agoBut how do you sell judgement? People don't want to hear, "That won't work" type of advice. The culture rewards "I can do the impossible" overconfidence. When you find out the project is harder than you thought, you just work nights and weekends to make up for it because you have no spouse or kids to neglect. (Yeah I've used that advantage myself when I was in my 20's.)
- nostrademons 12y agoPut yourself in situations where "I can do the impossible" overconfidence leads to running up against the brick wall of the impossible and having to start over. Usually that means some form of consulting. A lot of older developers have a lot of luck specializing in fixing problems that have previously been fucked up by junior developers, often using older more-stable technologies or working in tricky problem domains where there are a lot of gotchas.