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by TheRealNGenius
1639 days ago
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This will probably be an unpopular take, but 28 (your exact age) is "too old" to work in tech as a software engineer. Evidently, if it wasn't too old to work in tech, you wouldn't be asking this question in the first place. You even said that Paul Graham said not to hire engineers over 30. That gives you what? 2 years max to find a job, get settled in, and make a career out of it? Pshh. You'd obviously be behind others who started right out of college, as you mentioned. This post sounds to me like sympathy-baiting. As if you want others to assuage your doubts. You won't get that from me. If you're willing to listen to Paul Graham, you should also be willing to listen to me - another stranger whom you've never met. So let me bite the bullet and be the first one here to discriminate against you just because of your age. YOU'RE TOO OLD! Hate to break it to you, but you will never be able to make a living doing programming as a software engineer. Just give it up right here and now. |
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I'm asking to forecast 40+ because I'm essentially broke right now and have no idea of prospects beyond that age, and if I'll have enough saved by then because I have debt or if I should just forget it entirely and finish my degree. I genuinely have zero idea. For context, I would probably be 30 when I get my first engineering job if I did leave, so I feel like my fear can at least be understood if I truly believe I only had a 10 year window to work.
I did not say I'm going to switch. I'm just burnt out and considering a switch and trying to gather information. After reading all these comments I'm probably not going to, all from people with perspectives I didn't consider because I am not in this industry. I don't want your sympathy. I just wanted people's advice.
Sorry you took it the other way.