In twenty years you'll be in your 70's. Most people in their 70's are unemployable, no matter the field.
If you don't have a retirement plan, then you got to do some extreme saving and lifestyle adjustment (or you'll face even more extreme lifestyle adjustment once you retire).
If you do have a retirement plan, you have nothing to worry about.
Re:Not Just Any Old Geek
by citizenkeen on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @11:36PM
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No, they're in their 30s. They're concerned about their 50s.
Whoops, badly misread that.
When I'm in my 50s, I'm just not going to be one of those awesome elder coders. My boss is one of those graybeards, and he's awesome, but I'll never be him. I also have less than zero desire to ever work in management (and even if I wanted to do that, I don't have the people skills for it). So I'm seriously worried that I'm going to be unemployable in 10-20 years because companies will all prefer to hire people in their 20s with equivalent skills to mine out of ageism.