[TeMPOraL]

Looking at industries, I'm starting to feel that at the age of 50+ you can't really expect to pop up out of a blue with a nice CV and get hired. You have to keep in the flow - change projects, jump companies, build a network of people who know your skills and can recommend you when there are people needed for a new endeavour. It's probably not good, but it seems to me it works this way everywhere.

[JoeAltmaier]

An issue with 50+ is, everybody looks at your resume and says "Why do you want to work at our position?" Because, you've done so much at so many levels they assume you should be a VP or something, and no longer be developing.

[pjc50]

Inverted funnel: suppose there are ten programmers to every VP. As the programmers age, what happens to this ratio?