What Happens to Older Developers?

Re:What Happens to Older Developers? by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @10:11AM (#7428700)

So, get up to date. The victim mentality is not helping. Programming skills are maybe unique, in that everything you need to get better is actually available from the internet. Try learning plumbing that way.

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Re:What Happens to Older Developers? by wobbleblob on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @11:19AM (#7429204)

Do you list things as experience on your CV after you've followed a tutorial and played around with it as a hobby?

If you include those, the list would be pretty long.

Anyway, what I wanted to say is not that it's a bad skill set, but that it's a bad CV.

Maybe one of those recruiters can help him polish it

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Re:What Happens to Older Developers? by OldCoder on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @10:37AM (#7428862)

If I'm going to become a specialist, this is entirely correct. But is this the right path? Or is there a way to salvage a generalist career?

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Re:What Happens to Older Developers? by wobbleblob on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @11:28AM (#7429293)

I think you should polish your CV.

Maybe one of those recruiters can help you prune out a bit of the fluff, and expand on things that are relevant.

Also, since the CV clearly implies you're coming back from retirement, you should probably mention it explicitly and make what you have been doing the past 5 years sound good. I don't know how to do that, but those recruiters probably do.

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Re:What Happens to Older Developers? by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @10:39AM (#7428873)

Sure. Learn something specific and up-to-date. Then get a job. Then apply the generalist skills to out-perform expectations.

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