What is your specialty/tech stack? How have you gotten around age discrimination? How do you suss out whether a company is right for you?
(I'm in my late twenties but I'm very curious to hear all your experiences.)
Ask HN: Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around age discrimination?
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Re: Ask HN: Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around age discrimination?
#2Side questions if anybody answers this. How did you get your first job industry? I imagine corporation weren’t like there are now and thought of code as black magic.
Re: Ask HN: Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around age discrimination?
#3Value.
Are you valuable.
You can be 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 it doesn't matter.
If you are valuable, you will find a job no problem.
The 50 year olds who complain are the ones that offer no value and have essentially 1 year of experience doing the same thing (badly) for 30 years.
Re: Ask HN: Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around age discrimination?
#4There is a technology called hair coloring, stack it with a hoodie and some well fitted slacks, roll up one of the ankle cuffs a bit. Talk like you've exited a startup and are just working for fun, or something to keep you interested, but not like you actually have to.
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#5Not me, but my father in law, located in the midwest, is a sql dev. He's about to retire in a few years, switched jobs a few years back. From what he tells me, they didn't care that he was going to retire soon, they needed his skillset.
Location probably matters. My (also midwest) company was foaming at the mouth for a competent Java/SAP developer (which, forgive me for being catty, seems like a technology only a 40+ yr old would fill) a few years ago, never found anybody, position was never filled.
Re: Ask HN: Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around age discrimination?
#6Value. Are you valuable. You can be 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 it doesn't matter. If you are valuable, you will find a job no problem. The 50 year olds who complain are the ones that offer no value and have essentially 1 year of experience doing the same thing (badly) for 30 years.
That's a pretty condescending answer and pretending age discrimination isn't real doesn't help anything.
Re: Ask HN: Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around age discrimination?
#7Value. Are you valuable. You can be 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 it doesn't matter. If you are valuable, you will find a job no problem. The 50 year olds who complain are the ones that offer no value and have essentially 1 year of experience doing the same thing (badly) for 30 years.
You're probably a young'n. This is what everybody thinks until they hit the point in their life where they realize there is more to life than just work (family, friends, hobbies, etc). You'll be complaining soon enough.
Re: Ask HN: Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around age discrimination?
#8Value. Are you valuable. You can be 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 it doesn't matter. If you are valuable, you will find a job no problem. The 50 year olds who complain are the ones that offer no value and have essentially 1 year of experience doing the same thing (badly) for 30 years.
I'm pretty sure you don't understand how ageism works. Or racism, sexism or any other 'ism for that matter. Because based on your logic, these problems don't exist anymore in the job marketplace.
Re: Ask HN: Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around age discrimination?
#9Value. Are you valuable. You can be 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 it doesn't matter. If you are valuable, you will find a job no problem. The 50 year olds who complain are the ones that offer no value and have essentially 1 year of experience doing the same thing (badly) for 30 years.
You're probably a young'n. This is what everybody thinks until they hit the point in their life where they realize there is more to life than just work (family, friends, hobbies, etc). You'll be complaining soon enough.
And you have demonstrated your attention to detail by not bothering to check that my hn account is older than yours.
Re: Ask HN: Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around age discrimination?
#10Value. Are you valuable. You can be 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 it doesn't matter. If you are valuable, you will find a job no problem. The 50 year olds who complain are the ones that offer no value and have essentially 1 year of experience doing the same thing (badly) for 30 years.
>> The 50 year olds who complain are the ones that offer no value
So by your logic, anyone who is 50 or older - that complains - has no value? Real robust rating system you have there kiddo!