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A colorfully worded ad becomes a jumping-off point for older workers to discuss their experiences. It's sad when it has to be called out
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< young Haley Joel Osment voice >
We hire old people
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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They say ageism plague the software industry. Not so sure.
Case in point: my personal experience is. The older I get, the better I am paid and the easier it is to find a new job. For example, I just found a job with EA (Electronic Arts, a dream job, if there was any), which is also my best paid so far and I am 50 years old.
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 Congratulations from a 51 year-old.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Thanks mate! 
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Nice to hear it. Congratulations.
You have had luck (and are good enough to remain interesting for such a job), not all can say the same (and not speaking about me, as I can't complain)
M.D.V. 
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I had ... consistent luck (changing job every 2~3 years for the last 20 years)....
I think it goes beyond luck at this stage...
Might be different which country you in, and which technology expertise you pursue as well...
i.e. while I would be the first to say I am very smart (totally unbiased opinion ), there is more to it. I think one can plan their career ins such a way that it maximize their opportunities. Works in Australia 
For the record my "specialties" or strong point would be, as I like to advertise them, long time ago C/C++ (I like to stress it's not current, but it's there) and C#/.NET on Web, Desktop and Mobile platform. And the market is good!
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I have not changed so much as you but my current one is my 4th job and I can't complain at all. Surely I could earn more, but I could earn a lot of less and have less security / free time too (contract of 35h / week)
if I remember where I started...  
But as you say, being confident in your skills is really important. I am probably less proficient than many, but I have a wider area of application than many other people. And given a chance and a bit of time, I can learn (willing to too) almost everything.
And that opens a lot of doors
M.D.V.
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That's awesome! Congrats!
from a 57 year old. 
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Thanks Matey!
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In my experience, employers are looking for enthusiasm and competence. It just so happens that young people often have more of the both of them.
But if you're older, and you have them both, you stand a good chance of getting the job.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I still feel young.
Maybe if I just identify as old?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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About 5 years ago in the midst of a heat wave, Kornfield Eliyahu Peter posted a picture in which he replaced his cubicle with a swimming pool. 
This was my reply:
The Lounge
I suspect that you'll have similar problems in identifying as someone you are not (or possibly not; I know nothing of your true age ).
EDIT: the picture is no longer accessible.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: About 5 years ago in the midst of a heat wave, Kornfield Eliyahu Peter posted a picture in which he replaced his cubicle with a swimming pool.
This was my reply:
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: I know nothing of your true age
Ah, for the record, I'm sixteen of course. Have been that age for twenty eight years in a row now.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Ah, for the record, I'm sixteen of course. Have been that age for twenty eight years in a row now.
Lol.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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If you can stomach selling such garbage, here today and worthless when the web repository (eventually) shuts down, you are welcome to it.
OTOH, US$400,000 can buy lots of anti-nausea pills.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Wow. Selling blocky stupid useless "memes." What the world has come to. 
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Marc Clifton wrote: What the world has come to.
To be honest...
That someone tries to sell it is for may way less worrying that the fact they find buyers...  
M.D.V. 
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Nelek wrote: less worrying that the fact they find buyers
I don't understand who buys these either. It seems so odd that someone pays actual money for this.
However, here is one thing that made me think a bit differently about it.
I was thinking about setting up crypto wallet so I could understand it.
Then I thought, "if I do that, then I would want to try the wallet and how do you try the wallet except maybe spend some money on one of these NFTs?" Hmm...maybe it's just an odd interchange thing among all the people who have wallets? I'm still not sure.
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That would be the ingeneer approach, but I really think there is people totally conivenced that this will be a huge investment and that they will get rich
(and the worrying thing is that some will probably get it)
But to be honest... not for me.
M.D.V.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Wow. Selling blocky stupid useless "memes." What the world has come to
That really is a good summary of the exasperation that one feels when learning about this. I don't understand it either.
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An opportunity for Dan Neely (@DanNeely) to sell off the rights to the puking thingy! Maybe one of our own can become rich! 
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High-performing teams stay in touch frequently, making 10 phone calls to teammates per day on average, compared to 6 phone calls for other teams, according to a new report by Front. I just talk to myself
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Errrmmm... and when do they work? I thought performing was related to get things done
M.D.V.
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modified 27-Aug-21 6:37am.
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