| It really depends, there is agism in tech, people don't want to admit it's there. I also see many people in their 30's and 40's refuse to change and keep up. Then again, work on an mainframe, know Cobol, you can be 60, 70, 80 and it's fine. Those are in demand jobs and have no true aging out anymore. But, stuck just doing PHP and LAMP stacks, I can see that dying and being reborn again. PHP is great, though. Then there's the career movement to management and such, which doesn't require you knowing how to code per se. -- Do you even enjoy CS? Coding? Tech in general? If you don't, you probably will have this same dilemma in a few years "I like x, but I really don't feel it's my calling." Do you know what you want? Do you really want to be employable at 40? Why not retired? - Chasing money or a career that pays well doesn't really bold out well for fulfilment. Sure you'll get your money, and a cushion but you'll look back at it as time wasted. But you already do have a CS degree. So might as well use it, right? --
I like tech, I foresee myself always having a tech centric career, I use tech to allocate and organize my life and resources and I would never see myself as being to old at ever using tech for that goal or leveraging tech for work. Would I be designing hardware? No. Would I be designing fancy new algo's? No. Would I poorly be implementing encryption schemes, probably. Would I be head deep in excel and dashboards? Yes. Live life and enjoy, 28 is still young. |