At age 45 with 26 years under my belt, I can say that I enjoy my career now more than ever. I'm the sole admin for a small organization, with my position being about 30% IT support (everything from PCs to security) and 70% programming (development on our internal project management app, along with software for a new business we're starting up). I have the freedom to explore the technologies I'm interested in. One piece of advice for anyone in this field - you must ALWAYS be learning. I spend at least an hour each day (on my own time) reading articles on either new topics or advanced info for the stuff I work on day-to-day. Since I'm the Solo Admin (thesoloadmin.com), I do both hands-on and budgeting/policy/management type stuff too. For any of my fellow devs/admins out there, yes, you CAN have a great 2nd half of your career after 35. I wouldn't change it for the world!
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At age 45 with 26 years under my belt, I can say that I enjoy my career now more than ever. I'm the sole admin for a small organization, with my position being about 30% IT support (everything from PCs to security) and 70% programming (development on our internal project management app, along with software for a new business we're starting up). I have the freedom to explore the technologies I'm interested in. One piece of advice for anyone in this field - you must ALWAYS be learning. I spend at least an hour each day (on my own time) reading articles on either new topics or advanced info for the stuff I work on day-to-day. Since I'm the Solo Admin (thesoloadmin.com), I do both hands-on and budgeting/policy/management type stuff too. For any of my fellow devs/admins out there, yes, you CAN have a great 2nd half of your career after 35. I wouldn't change it for the world!