[nicoburns]

> I guess I'll never get a job coding due to ageism

I wouldn't assume that. Demand for coders with experience is through the roof at the moment, and from what I can tell the ageism issue is less severe in the UK than it is in the US.

I can see your conviction being an issue for data science jobs as such a job inherently requires trusting you to have access to the data. But perhaps you could find a job that's working on public datasets? Perhaps it would be worth considering trying to find a government / civil service job? They will have lots of public data, and probably have good non-discrimination policies too.

[shubb]

My experience of UK government and government contractor jobs is that they follow a recruitment standard where they are much more likely to check convictions. Many need some low level security clearance too which would be a problem.

On the other hand for more generic startup jobs in the UK, you might not even be asked about criminal history except "so what is this period on your CV", and they are much less likely to care as long as you tell a good story about why it won't happen again.

I'd lean towards smaller companies as far from government and finance as possible...

[mkdirp]

> > I guess I'll never get a job coding due to ageism

> I wouldn't assume that.

I can't add a lot to this discussion, but my colleague, who is in his 50s, got hired around the same time as me here in the UK.