Re:Ask HN: How to get around ageism and perceived incompetence?
by muzani on Saturday August 05, 2017 @07:43PM
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It sounds like you're suited for management or teaching.
You're humble enough to have impostor's syndrome. You're at the sweet spot for management/teaching age.
Despite what you feel now, you've probably learned a lot about different kinds of tools and which one to pick in what situation, even if you're not great at using them. You have also learned how trends evolve in time and have better instinct for when to adopt a new technology or use an older one.
Management isn't that hard either, but it needs someone who can understand what the engineers are going through and get things out of the way.
My hack was to start a startup and see it all the way through, but I wouldn't recommend it unless you're really desperate.
Another approach might be to teach bootcamps or some community college. You're probably extremely qualified by teaching standards, unless you hate teaching.
You're humble enough to have impostor's syndrome. You're at the sweet spot for management/teaching age.
Despite what you feel now, you've probably learned a lot about different kinds of tools and which one to pick in what situation, even if you're not great at using them. You have also learned how trends evolve in time and have better instinct for when to adopt a new technology or use an older one.
Management isn't that hard either, but it needs someone who can understand what the engineers are going through and get things out of the way.
My hack was to start a startup and see it all the way through, but I wouldn't recommend it unless you're really desperate.
Another approach might be to teach bootcamps or some community college. You're probably extremely qualified by teaching standards, unless you hate teaching.