<div dir="ltr">I ask myself the same question every day. I don't get promoted at work for reasons I don't know. I don't want to plead for a promotion but since my manager is 10+ years younger than me I am not sure how to stake claim for rewards to my experience.<div><br></div><div>I don't know what I should do with the 20+ years still left in me. Devops with more and more leaning towards the ops side is appealing and attractive but not too keen on the puppet dsl side of things. </div><div><br></div><div>Things change fast too. First it was VM's, now docker. Add to the mix vagrant and all these are making my head spin while I still like. For reasons that I don't know myself, I am somehow like a child around new technology and want to learn it but just can't concentrate to read a book.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope the landscape settles for some time so I can spend a decade not learning way too much stuff.</div><div><br></div><div>-Na</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Phil Turmel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philip@turmel.org" target="_blank">philip@turmel.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 04/12/2015 09:34 AM, Atlanta Geek wrote:<br>
</span><div><div class="h5">> Im well into my 40s and am finding that I am normally the oldest developer<br>
> in my team. Im not sure how this happened or when this happened (that 7<br>
> year stint at a company I got too comfortable at was like a time warp.) I<br>
> also came across this article:<br>
> <a href="http://improvingsoftware.com/2009/05/19/programmers-before-you-turn-40-get-a-plan-b/" target="_blank">http://improvingsoftware.com/2009/05/19/programmers-before-you-turn-40-get-a-plan-b/</a><br>
><br>
> So where have all the 90s developers gone. Cause there was a lot of us.<br>
<br>
</div></div>They find niches of their own. I'm an electrical engineer and<br>
programmer, but I rarely mention the programmer aspect when discussing<br>
things with clients and colleagues. It may be 90% of what I do, but<br>
hardly anybody understands that.<br>
<br>
Fortunately, at 48 I own my business, so I don't have to explain.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Phil<br>
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