Re:Ask HN: 40+ Career Advice?
by scarface74 on Sunday October 14, 2018 @01:03AM
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The prospect of being a senior dev and 40 is terrifying to me. The only ones who are treated with any respect are the "real" wizards - i.e. the guys who spent every spare second if their life breathing tech.
I’m not a wizard, my work/life/exercise balance is pretty good and I’m in my mid 40s.
I would hate to be “just a senior developer” competing with younger people who could do just as well for less money.
I feel my value add is architecture. I’m a hands on developer by choice, but I can also step in and lead projects, do Devops, speak to CxOs, I know AWS from a development, Devops, and netops perspective pretty well.
That does mean that only certain types of companies will pay me for that skillset - mostly smaller companies without dedicated people for all those areas.
I’m not a wizard, my work/life/exercise balance is pretty good and I’m in my mid 40s.
I would hate to be “just a senior developer” competing with younger people who could do just as well for less money.
I feel my value add is architecture. I’m a hands on developer by choice, but I can also step in and lead projects, do Devops, speak to CxOs, I know AWS from a development, Devops, and netops perspective pretty well.
That does mean that only certain types of companies will pay me for that skillset - mostly smaller companies without dedicated people for all those areas.