[soneca]

I am already earning money that I would expect to earn only close to my retirement in my other careers, if successful. So I am very happy with my choice financially-wise. And I still enjoy a lot coding everyday. Also I am lucky to never have felt (or at least noticed) the effects of ageism on my career. On the contrary, employers have explicitly told me that my long professional experience and maturity was an asset that was considered in my hiring (they paired me with a 21-year-old who was a senior by technical merits, but still needed to improve in other aspects of fulfilling a senior dev role).