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

[Leam Hall]

I used to worry about this, and tested the waters as a manager/project 
manager type. Nyah. At home I like to solve basic system configuration 
issues. I'm not a great coder or people person, but I have skills that 
are useful. That's why i started teh SecComFrame project. It lets me 
code at my level, create a place others can join in, and provides a 
useful and comprehensible tool to a community that needs help.

The truth came when I looked at what I do when nothing else needs doing. 
FInd that for yourself.

If you're a coder, I'd say look at "the internet of things". That 
concept really scares me! Not that it's a bad idea, but because coding 
people these days have no concept or skills for security or performance. 
More than anything the IoT seems to provide the bad guys everything they 
might ever want, free and on a platter!

Leam


On 04/12/15 20:56, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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