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Old Developers - any future ?
Hi
I have been programming most of my adult life, but as I get closer to the dreaded 40's people around me keep telling me that there is no such thing as an old software engineer, you either become a manager (pointy haired ??) unemployed or finish you career in a slow agonizing death maintaining some old boring code.
can this be really the true? thinking about it I know people find it more and more difficult to find a job as they grow older. I must admit that most the people working in my current workplace are younger then me and above all I don't think I know many engineers much older then me, so what happens to them?
I would greatly appreciate your thoughts and advice on the subject
-Almost Middle aged Engineer