When the Jobless Become the Unemployable

Re:When the Jobless Become the Unemployable by brc on Thursday December 02, 2010 @11:43PM (#1964782)

Your question is very prescient. Every developer has to have a game plan for what they are going to do when they are 50. Like it or not, it's a young mans game, and if you're pushing high age numbers, you've got to either be the go-to guru or the seasoned and sensible manager. If you're going straight up against 25 year olds in skillsets, it's going to be hard to win interviews.

Of course, creating your own companies is the other way to get around this.

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Re:When the Jobless Become the Unemployable by hga on Friday December 03, 2010 @09:41PM (#1968277)

Or more like 35-40 from what I've head, seen and experienced.

In my case, I was able to unintentionally run a bit of an experiment: starting around 35 or so I found it harder and harder to get work ... until I scrubbed my resume of all evidence of my age, which worked since I don't look my age and generally remembered to not talk about programming PDP-11s in interviews ^_^.

I did this in the middle of a job hunt and the change in responses was remarkable.

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