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Say what? No! The project gets done, the customer is happy, and you move on to the next project. After a couple decades of this, I have a hard time recalling failures... maybe at 40+ the failures can't be remembered? This is fine.
I switched to nursing. At 55 I've now completed nursing school, have an RN, and am looking for my first job (at about 1/5 or less of what I could earn as a developer). Programming had become too easy. Now I'm doing something difficult again. Difficult is what, for me, keeps the fire burning.
> Programming had become too easy. what do you meen?
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As someone who went from development to management and then recently back, I strongly recommend that you avoid seeing management as a pull, or as a natural progression for your career. Management is 100% a different skill set, and going there from an engineering position is a career change , not evolution. It's not a promotion, either. If you do decide to go into management, jump with both feet and give it 100%. And…
It depends on the company. I am 47, very senior "management" position in a large company. I manage a whooping team of three. By choice. What I am not comfortable with in your comment is the manager = leader (implied in the last sentence). I hate to manage people (to plan their work, to do the logistics of their life at the office etc.). On the other hand I live to be the one pushing for a solution, bringing others in…
I'm 38, but started working young, so probably equivalent. 1. These days I care a lot more about what the software is for, what makes it useful. So I don't need to get excited about trendy technology, I get excited about e.g. building a completely new kind of gene sequencing device that will help disease research and diagnosis. (Write about this here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/08/07/do-something-useful/ ) 2.…
...to make up for a slower brain, less stamina and decreasing memory... This is NOT normal and should not be accepted as such. I'm 63 and have been programming professionally for 40 years. I'm currently working on several projects that are as complex as anything I've ever done. I honestly feel that that I get better every year, build stuff I never imagined a few years ago. I know this is subjective, but I feel like m…