alt Hacker NewsIt most certainly was a lifelong career.
I’m kind of confused how you might think it wasn’t. Going through a career as a software dev until retirement was very common.
Software engineers didn’t just disappear after age 40.
It most certainly was a lifelong career.
I’m kind of confused how you might think it wasn’t. Going through a career as a software dev until retirement was very common.
Software engineers didn’t just disappear after age 40.
> Software engineers didn’t just disappear after age 40.
At the end of the 90th and beginning of the 00th ("dotcom bubble") it was a common saying that if as a programmer, when you are 30 or 40, you don't have a very successful company (and thus basically set for life), you basically failed in life; exactly because "everybody" knew that programming is a "young man's game" (i.e. you likely won't get a programming job anymore when you are, say, 35 or 40 years old).
So,
> Software engineers didn’t just disappear after age 40.
is rather a very recent phenomenon.