Re:Ask HN: How do you find a new career in your early forties?
by matt_s on Monday October 18, 2021 @01:33PM
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Sounds like you want to be a Product Manager - defining what a product does and managing the efforts to get it implemented. Titles might also be project manager but product is usually a key word that an organization is less concerned about typical PM's and more about product delivery vs. IT. Business Analyst might also be a path towards a product manager.
Maybe look for something in the investment space since you have knowledge about that.
Re:Ask HN: How do you find a new career in your early forties?
by CodingPanda42 on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @03:31AM
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If you don't like the act of writing code then you def don't want to go down the developer route.
I agree with some of the other comments that looking into product management might very well be worth it and your background in investment can help with that if you find a company in that field!
Re:Ask HN: How do you find a new career in your early forties?
by tmaly on Monday October 18, 2021 @10:16PM
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Are you good at writing requirements or doing project management work? There are tons of opportunities in Fintech that need those type of skills. Having some tech background is a huge plus.
Re:Ask HN: How do you find a new career in your early forties?
by newcareerwanted on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @04:09AM
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I don't know whether I'm good with those things as I have never done them.
> Do you want a new career or a new job?
Both.
> Where do you want to be? What can you imagine yourself as?
Hm, difficult questions I can only partially answer. One part is definitely to become an (part-time) investor again.
> Can you not imagine yourself as a developer because of self-doubts or because you really don't like that path?
It's a mix of both. I have doubts whether I can do it. And I have difficulty to imagine doing it 100%. What I liked in the past was working at the design level, with paper and pen. But at the two developer jobs I had in the past, this was only a small part of the work. Most of it was coding, which for me is more of a necessary evil. Or to say it in another way: I like designing a house, not building it.