Where are all the 40+ year old people in tech?
Dang, ment to post it on /g/ not on this shit board
>>8056993
kys
>>8056993
Jessica JUSTain
>>8057529
mommyfu
>>8056993
They quit or are fired on their first burnout.
>>8056993
they are in management
>>8056993
If you do peasant stuff in software (programming, testing, QA, etc.) you will be fired. If you go into management you are safer.
If you are a scientist you will probably be pretty broke at 40, but hopefully now have gotten tenure, so the only way forward is up.
If you are a scientist in industry you should be doing pretty well.
All this is from my own hard earned experience.
>>8058988
>All this is from my own hard earned experience.
So by your 40s you were a software developer, tester and QA, an academia scientist and an industry scientist all at the same time?
Well, that's a good fucking record.
>>8056993
We're right here, kid. Now get off my lawn.
>>8058988
The peasant stuff in software is raking in big bucks in Silicon Valley & Seattle. People whom I would describe as complete and utter retards are getting six figure jobs.
>>8056993
39 here
>>8056993
>Where are all the 40+ year old people in tech?
You...
You mean my colleagues?
>Looks around room
>retirement-ready people errywhere
The answer is: "Not in startups" because 40+ year old people have children and mortgages so they cannot bet on the startup success story and hope for billions, they have to settle for the $100k steady, but there are plenty of steady companies with older programmers.
