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The 50 year old programmer
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Similar age but not feeling it at all despite being on the bench a few months now. But I have many contractor friends who have had more than enough due to 1 too many bad contracting experience and would love to go perm again but as the wrong side of 40 pushing 50 are stuck in the same sinking ship many of us are clinging onto the life rafts of
I reckon about 5 years ago was the best time to get out of contracting unless you were in the high end rates wise. Now it seems like a race to the bottom every person for themselves. IT more than many other industries is very biased against you after a certain age as like you mentioned hiring managers are usually in their 30s so many will see an older person as a challenge to manage not an asset to exploit. That and agent perception are the biggest challenges AFTER even finding a suitable role you can apply for that is!
Look forward not backward is all you can do and hope the next role is better & try to convert to perm if its possible on a lower salary as that alone can reduce the stress-hassle factor!Comment
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Originally posted by Big Blue Plymouth View PostMaybe it's the complete disconnect between millennials and somebody in their fifties?
I'm completely with the op on this one. For me it's more the whole Agile thing - 3 hour long meetings in which I have to have an active role after a 2 hour commute and 3 hours sleep.
I've avoided pair programming so far but I do enquire about it before accepting a role because pp in its purest form would be positively misery inducing. I once worked with a guy who told me at his previous client everything was 100% paired. Not only that, each day you would be moved to a completely different user story.
Shudder....
Because thats what my experience of your attitude means.Comment
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Moved to General. It seems a better place.
Originally posted by oliverson View PostOnly a few months away now. I always swore I'd be retired by 50 but it's not looking likely. Still need the money, but my god am I losing the will. The thought of going through the motions for that next contract, being interviewed by people in their 30's (or less), fills me with dread, as does sitting down pair-programming with somebody young enough to be my son or daughter. Anybody else been through this?
By the time you're 50, you've been there and one that. Nothing is new except perhaps the terminology.
I'm very happy to sit next to some young lady enough to be my daughter.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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yes but NAT,
our business is _different_
our business is the one area of IT which respects longevity and knowledge of all versions of the product, mainly because customers rarely only have the latest version of the product and normally have a mixture of versions in their portfolio, versions which have generally evolved and share the same dna therefore bringing high value to longevity of experience and knowledge
Milan (age 44).Comment
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I'm 55 this year. Need 2 more full time years for a comfortable retirement. Could quit tomorrow if I really had to.
I work with a niche product so plan to go down to a couple of days a week consultancy rather than totally quit.
Don't love what I do but I'm rather fond of the money....my quagmire of greed....my cesspit of laziness and unfairness....all I am doing is sticking two fingers up at nurses, doctors and other hard working employed professionals...
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Originally posted by original PM View PostIs this because you prefer to completely over estimate the work and then be able to sit quietly in a corner doing feck all for 3 days out of every 5?
Because thats what my experience of your attitude means.
I just don't enjoy endless meetings holding up tee shirt sizes, fibonacci series etc.
It bores the bejeezus out of me.Comment
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Originally posted by Big Blue Plymouth View PostNope.
I just don't enjoy endless meetings holding up tee shirt sizes, fibonacci series etc.
It bores the bejeezus out of me.Comment
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Originally posted by oliverson View PostOnly a few months away now. I always swore I'd be retired by 50 but it's not looking likely. Still need the money, but my god am I losing the will. The thought of going through the motions for that next contract, being interviewed by people in their 30's (or less), fills me with dread, as does sitting down pair-programming with somebody young enough to be my son or daughter. Anybody else been through this?"A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George OrwellComment
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Originally posted by Big Blue Plymouth View PostNope.
I just don't enjoy endless meetings holding up tee shirt sizes, fibonacci series etc.
It bores the bejeezus out of me."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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