[ale] OT where do all the old programmers go.

[Narahari 'n' Savitha]

I ask myself the same question every day.  I don't get promoted at work for
reasons I don't know.  I don't want to plead for a promotion but since my
manager is 10+ years younger than me I am not sure how to stake claim for
rewards to my experience.

I don't know what I should  do with the 20+ years still left in me.  Devops
with more and more leaning towards the ops side is appealing and attractive
but not too keen on the puppet dsl side of things.

Things change fast too.  First it was VM's, now docker.  Add to the mix
vagrant and all these are making my head spin while I still like.  For
reasons that I don't know myself, I am somehow like a child around new
technology and want to learn it but just can't concentrate to read a book.

I hope the landscape settles for some time so I can spend a decade not
learning way too much stuff.

-Na

On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Phil Turmel <philip at turmel.org> wrote:

> On 04/12/2015 09:34 AM, Atlanta Geek wrote:
> > Im well into my 40s and am finding that I am normally the oldest
> developer
> > in my team. Im not sure how this happened or when this happened (that 7
> > year stint at a company I got too comfortable at was like a time warp.)
> I
> > also came across this article:
> >
> http://improvingsoftware.com/2009/05/19/programmers-before-you-turn-40-get-a-plan-b/
> >
> > So where have all the 90s developers gone.  Cause there was a lot of us.
>
> They find niches of their own.  I'm an electrical engineer and
> programmer, but I rarely mention the programmer aspect when discussing
> things with clients and colleagues.  It may be 90% of what I do, but
> hardly anybody understands that.
>
> Fortunately, at 48 I own my business, so I don't have to explain.
>
> Phil
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