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Honest question: what happens to developers after they are no longer "Developers"?

As a 29-year-old I'm kind of freaked out by the fact that I'm on the older part of that distribution.

I do not have stats to base this claim, but when I worked at my last job, I heard from an employee in another department that the normal lifespan for a software developer was 7 years, after which they have some sort of career change, be it management or logging.

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