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Adrian B.G. • Edited

Nice! The article is good but it touches many difficult subjects.

age

Most of the companies (especially non-tech ones) will always hire averages (too young, they don't want to waste their resources to teach the new generation), too old they are afraid they will ask for special conditions, usually higher paychecks or they will want to do things in their ways, not the company way (not change).

I think remote jobs will mitigate this problem in the long run, the young ones get nervous or have strong feelings about their old peers. Some problems like "afraid to speak your mind on meetings" are accentuated because of these feelings.

. > 40yrs old have more problems to find work in most fields, across the globe.

same 1y of experience

This applies to any age. Change is difficult for humans. It's the most difficult thing to do for our brains, most of the devs will stay stuck for a long time in just 1 technology, even in 1 version of a language.

Learn, adapt, and learn some more

I will just add "human interaction", meetups, clubs, beers, just talk with other peers.

remaining developer

From what I saw & read in my limited experience, developers after 5-10yrs of exp they switch to management or other leading roles, writing none or less code. Is this a natural trend? How did you survived?

I wish to do the same, be a developer with 30ys+ of experience, not a manager with coding experience.