I'm 34 years old, and I don't think this question matters at all. As someone who's been professionally programming since well before YC existed, I fall into a s

I'm 34 years old, and I don't think this question matters at all. As someone who's been professionally programming since well before YC existed, I fall into a strange category: I'm really young. To anyone even close to my age or older? Be very worried. To everyone else? Be worried about the non-programmers. If you can hack it at hacking, then you have nothing to fear in any economic environment. Any individual might see a downturn because the overall economy sucks, or because the dominant culture doesn't recognize them as fully human. We live in far stranger times than that. Don't worry about the upper $300k tier, rather worry about the bottom falling out of the $60k tier market. (That's still triple the poverty line.) If you are worried about anything else, you should literally die.