[iainctduncan]

Absolutely. You just need to be strategic about what kind of work you want to do and with whom you want to work, and then build your skill set accordingly. I would strongly suggest you look for older mentors. I work as a technical due diligence assessor, and I see so many unglamorous and unknown tech companies in weird niches that you'd never think of, but making buckets of money. Many of whom have mature staff. Software is far, far more diverse than tech media and general media would lead you to believe, and there are lots of fields where people with other life experience and the stability of someone in their 40s is highly desirable. Lots of companies really don't want to be constantly worrying about losing their devs, which is far more of a problem if they are young and easily lured to other cities.