The morning of my 35th birthday they wrapped me in a lined blanket and hauled me out to my back yard. There, before an audience of squirrels and a few neighbors, they placed an ornate crown built of poison ivy on my balded dome and proclaimed me the aged king of the nerds, decreeing that henceforth I must not bend my finger upon the rows of keys and all games must be played with "Dad mode" enabled.
Then I woke up and went to work for real.
Your career is what you make of it. For me, as I've gotten older I've become more interested in the people side of things. I've branched into AI / ML over the last 5 years to satisfy my curiosity and desire to continue to learn, but every year feels like additional "bonus levels" where you've mastered the mechanics and are layering in new skill points and experimenting in new ways.
Your career is what you make of it. Learn, grow, and invest in others. Invest in yourself, because the exciting changes in tech will continue. At 40 I found myself leaving an engineering management role to teach new developers. At 41 I found myself going back to college in the evenings to pursue a master's degree. Why? Because it opens up new avenues to teach others and new things to learn.
I'm now writing a lot, creating courses, presenting at conferences, and generally dunking on the areas I touch. It will fade over time as I continue to age, I'm certain, but for now I'm able to make a massive difference for my organizations - and I still write a lot of code while making that difference.
But seriously, the dad mode thing is real. You're gunna suck at games. that's okay.
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If I ever join chat on any games, kids always ask how old I am and guess something "really old" like 20. And I tell them, and they tell me I'm lying. There's a real feeling with young people that when you get older you can't still be playing games.
Well, that's what my parents and their generation told us when we were growing up in the 80's. That's definitely been proven to be a wrong assumption.
I will tell you that my skills decreased greatly moving into my 30s and then beyond, and nowadays I don't have as much energy to game, but I'm still interested in gaming. As a result, I watch Let's Plays of games at 2x speed as I'm winding down to get my story fix. I also still play a lot of simulation and management games I can casually pause and walk away from. Those are good ones for when my wife and I are just hanging out watching TV. But yeah, my usage of games has changed over the years in part because of skill, but more because of shifting priorities and what I choose to do with my focus time.
You reach an age when you play for different reasons lol competitive or social lol I know I play Pubg social and competitively I would play justice league... no one can beat me on that. But on pubg these kids do head shots and cheats.
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The morning of my 35th birthday they wrapped me in a lined blanket and hauled me out to my back yard. There, before an audience of squirrels and a few neighbors, they placed an ornate crown built of poison ivy on my balded dome and proclaimed me the aged king of the nerds, decreeing that henceforth I must not bend my finger upon the rows of keys and all games must be played with "Dad mode" enabled.
Then I woke up and went to work for real.
Your career is what you make of it. For me, as I've gotten older I've become more interested in the people side of things. I've branched into AI / ML over the last 5 years to satisfy my curiosity and desire to continue to learn, but every year feels like additional "bonus levels" where you've mastered the mechanics and are layering in new skill points and experimenting in new ways.
Your career is what you make of it. Learn, grow, and invest in others. Invest in yourself, because the exciting changes in tech will continue. At 40 I found myself leaving an engineering management role to teach new developers. At 41 I found myself going back to college in the evenings to pursue a master's degree. Why? Because it opens up new avenues to teach others and new things to learn.
I'm now writing a lot, creating courses, presenting at conferences, and generally dunking on the areas I touch. It will fade over time as I continue to age, I'm certain, but for now I'm able to make a massive difference for my organizations - and I still write a lot of code while making that difference.
But seriously, the dad mode thing is real. You're gunna suck at games. that's okay.
If I ever join chat on any games, kids always ask how old I am and guess something "really old" like 20. And I tell them, and they tell me I'm lying. There's a real feeling with young people that when you get older you can't still be playing games.
Ha same, as a 38 year old female it's always astonishing to the youths.
I used to pubg-mobile a lot. And the same thing would happen. I would get asked questions about my age. I started wanting to play with my peers lol
Well, that's what my parents and their generation told us when we were growing up in the 80's. That's definitely been proven to be a wrong assumption.
I will tell you that my skills decreased greatly moving into my 30s and then beyond, and nowadays I don't have as much energy to game, but I'm still interested in gaming. As a result, I watch Let's Plays of games at 2x speed as I'm winding down to get my story fix. I also still play a lot of simulation and management games I can casually pause and walk away from. Those are good ones for when my wife and I are just hanging out watching TV. But yeah, my usage of games has changed over the years in part because of skill, but more because of shifting priorities and what I choose to do with my focus time.
I like watching replays of ping mobile by some guy Called BuiBiu I find the game play intertwining especially since I don’t have a device to play with
A game you can walk away from when you need to - that's pretty much my criteria for anything that I'm going to play more than once a blue moon.
You reach an age when you play for different reasons lol competitive or social lol I know I play Pubg social and competitively I would play justice league... no one can beat me on that. But on pubg these kids do head shots and cheats.