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Im 35, programming since 15. great dev, never gonna be manager, simply dont want the responsibility and headache. Im good with code, not with managing people who code. The assumption that devs should go into managment seems alien to me :D but nice art

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My fear is the joke from the movie Primer:

    - "How did you get over here?"

    - "Do you know what they do with engineers when they turn forty?  They take them out and shoot them."

I've read in other threads that the ageism fear is overblown, and also that it's not overblown at all.

My plan is to develop enough of a professional network (whatever that means) that I won't be doing leetcode problems for a twenty-five-year-old interviewer when I'm fifty.

Well it depends. I do program in couple of languages, i do re and i still know a bit of assembler. If youve got right skills (sorry guys with just php and js) then i believe its not an issue. That might change, i will let you know when i hit 45 though im planning to be on retirement at that point :) but i do learn constantly, im not sure if thats true for every developer

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