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Re:Older Workers Challenge Firms’ Aggressive Pursuit of the ... by danieltillett on Sunday April 16, 2017 @09:46PM (#14128721)
I tried this. Older workers are great if you have a stable problem (better than young workers on average), but are terrible if the job requires a lot of context shifting. Startups and stable problems are rarely found in the same room.
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Re:Older Workers Challenge Firms’ Aggressive Pursuit of the ... by bootload on Sunday April 16, 2017 @10:00PM (#14128776)
Dan, what do you mean by ^context shifting?^ Switching from one problem in a different area to another problem?
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Re:Older Workers Challenge Firms’ Aggressive Pursuit of the ... by danieltillett on Sunday April 16, 2017 @10:07PM (#14128798)
Yes. As you get older this gets much harder (I know from personal experience). I wish it were otherwise, but like grey hair and wrinkles it seems just part of getting older.
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Re:Older Workers Challenge Firms’ Aggressive Pursuit of the ... by ams6110 on Sunday April 16, 2017 @10:45PM (#14128913)
Well I'm 50 and my job involves a lot of context shifting, solving sudden problems with systems I'm not an expert at (thus requiring research) and generally being a jack of all trades.

I find it easier to do now than I did when I was younger, I see it as just what the job is. When I was younger, a sudden demand to do something different would have me annoyed because it was distracting me from what I really wanted to be working on.

Now I know that everything will be different in 5 or 10 years, so it doesn't really matter what I'm working on as it will be irrelevant soon.

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Re:Older Workers Challenge Firms’ Aggressive Pursuit of the ... by danieltillett on Sunday April 16, 2017 @10:54PM (#14128944)
Do you find it easier than when you were young or are you just more accepting now that it is required?

My job requires a ton of rapid context switching, but I do find it much harder now than when I was younger (I am 46).

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