Old Geek Jobs: fighting against ageism in the industry

Re:Old Geek Jobs: fighting against ageism in the industry by tjic on Thursday September 15, 2016 @11:15AM (#12506843)

I've been a coder. I've been a manager. I've owned a firm that had 15 employees.

Of all of these, I prefer to be a coder.

I'm just 5 years away from 50, and let me tell you: not only do I want to be a developer at 50, I want to be a developer at 70.

Being a developer means getting paid good money to work on problems that are perfectly suited to my INTJ / spergy personality. There's nothing else I'd rather do with my (work) time.

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Re:Old Geek Jobs: fighting against ageism in the industry by steveax on Thursday September 15, 2016 @11:49AM (#12507133)

I'm 5 years on the other side of 50 and similar story. Did 8 years in the game industry, 3D and technical art, then as a co-founder of a small (22 employees at height) game studio, coding since then. Still love it - and yes I have a plan :-)

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Re:Old Geek Jobs: fighting against ageism in the industry by kyled on Thursday September 15, 2016 @11:30AM (#12506974)

What did your firm do?

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Re:Old Geek Jobs: fighting against ageism in the industry by tjic on Thursday September 15, 2016 @11:55AM (#12507186)

I owned two businesses:

* SmartFlix.com (dvd rental business) * Heavyink.com (comic book ecommerce)

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