Expecting to keep your (software) engineering career forever?

JDMurray

There is an excellent thread today at Slashdot about the problems faced by older, very experienced, and well-paid engineers. Although the thread is mostly about software engineers, it really applies to any 40yo+ people that think they will be able to stay working in the "tech trenches" their entire career.

I found this discussion very poignant because I am currently trying to get out of software engineering as my main profession once and for all.

Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Learn New Programming Languages? - Slashdot

whatthehell

I read this as well, and thought it was a pretty good read.

Personally, I agree with some of the statements regarding it never being too late to learn something new, or move into something different.

I would also rather have one really experienced coder versus two younger non-experienced coders any day, but corporate powers dictate otherwise to save money and appease the bloody investors.

tpatt100

At my old job they had to hire contractors to help train up developers that worked there for over 15 years.