As an older guy, you are less prone to work overtime and accept quasi-explotation by a large firm unless properly remunerated. And often you have the experience and inner authority to just laugh at whatever a 20-something manager might give you. Reverse this, and it becomes obvious why they often prefer to hire young lads.
GitHub as a hiring tool: a corporation will prefer someone keen to work for free on uncountable (most of the time useless) projects, compared to whom does not answer the phone if not paid.
After years working on the cutting-edge of technology, you have seen many, really many "new things that will rule everything else out", failing miserably over the reliability and resources available for "old" technologies, i.e. PHP and Java are here to stay. Trends and hype just do not fit well with IT. They do work in conferences though.
I am 49 and as an ex top star Flash developer I do enjoy a double stigma :D the best way to go forward to me has been establishing my own consulting firm, where my experience and my ability to foresee from a broad point of view are powerful selling points, and just don't deal with corporate or freelance bidding crap.
Great points! And while I never did Flash development specifically, there was a brief period where I was completely in love with Flex. To this day, I feel that Flex was an excellent, and often overlooked, platform.
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Lovely article.
I suggest 3 more points:
I am 49 and as an ex top star Flash developer I do enjoy a double stigma :D the best way to go forward to me has been establishing my own consulting firm, where my experience and my ability to foresee from a broad point of view are powerful selling points, and just don't deal with corporate or freelance bidding crap.
Great points! And while I never did Flash development specifically, there was a brief period where I was completely in love with Flex. To this day, I feel that Flex was an excellent, and often overlooked, platform.