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Re: 55 year old preparing for out of work

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Is it safe to assume (since you're an ASP programmer) that you're already competent with HTML? If so, then I'd highly recommend you get up to speed with HTML5 and mobile development. It's the direction things are going. Try to think as many moves ahead as you can. :) Good luck!!

yes, I know SQL Server, HTML, CSS, I have been working with JQuery for a couple of years now. What concerns me is my backend server language. Thanks, I'll brush up on my HTML5 as well.

Re: 55 year old preparing for out of work

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If you post here, you are already half way through, because it means you know where you are and that you want to go somewhere else. For the the somewhere else, I would say, take a look around you. ASP is not necessarily bad, many systems are still running on top of ASP and a good knowledge of it can help you land deals where people need this kind of knowledge. So, look for new things (pay particular attention not to…

Interesting... I didn't think of leveraging my ASP skills. Thanks.

I would learn PHP.

Re: 55 year old preparing for out of work

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I second Loic's and Diminish's suggestions. What I've seen with COBOL, RPG and FORTRAN is that over time the rates for freelancers actually go up due to scarcity of supply.

Typically there is a rush to new tools, etc. So you can either learn some new framework, tools etc and be competing with a lot of similarly skilled programmers. OR ... you can contract yourself to maintain and enhance "legacy" systems. Languages/frameworks fall out of vogue far quicker than the systems implemented in them.

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