Is software development really a dead-end job after age 35-40?

Re:Is software development really a dead-end job after age 3... by amyjess on Friday November 17, 2017 @06:16PM (#15726793)

> Programmers to programmers: You must be a super agile ninja capable of teaching yourself everything at a moment's notice.

I'd be interested in a demographic breakdown of the people who say this. I'd be willing to bet that most of them are in their twenties, live in SF/SV or Seattle, and/or work at startups or insanely demanding trendsetting companies (e.g. Google, Amazon, Tesla, Apple). In other words, these claims are made by people who care about being "cool".

I don't think you'll hear this much from people who live in less trendy areas and work at less trendy companies. Older people and people who work at conservative companies in conservative areas of conservative states (Hi, I work at a B2B telecom in Plano, Texas, and I'm in my 30s) probably aren't going to be making those kinds of claims.

If you stop caring about being "cool", you'll find plenty of work that'll sustain you until you retire.

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Re:Is software development really a dead-end job after age 3... by Terr_ on Friday November 17, 2017 @09:01PM (#15727398)

> > You must be a super agile ninja capable of teaching yourself everything at a moment's notice.

I imagine there's also a good helping of: "Hey, the MVP works and I won't be here in years 2-10 maintaining it, so everything I can see indicates I successfully learned X on my own in a month."

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