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by jossclimb 1223 days ago
right gotcha, I was more referencing being 40+ in a corp. I remember IBM trying to cull older workers and then getting caught out.
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Oh yeah. Take it from me. I'm 60, and ran into this, five years ago, when I was looking for work.

As far as startups go, I would have been absolutely ideal for a risky startup, as I didn't need the money, and was willing to work cheap, if the project interested me, and take chances (and work hard). I am also skilled in a gazillion different aspects of shipping software. I've shipped software all my life (Since I was 25 or so).

All I have been doing, is shipping software. All my adult life. Deliverable has been my life's labor.

I'm also used to shepherding a project through its entire lifecycle; from napkin sketch to shrinkwrap and beyond. That usually takes years, for most halfway ambitious projects. Requires a lot of patience. Lots of boring stuff, too.

But, you know, gray hair, and all...

So, nowadays, I work for free, with folks that can't afford folks like me. I've been working on a fairly ambitious project (backend and frontend), for the last couple of years. It should work nicely.

Having seen the same situation in the previous generation in my family, I'm not looking forward to be (perceived as) too old to be employable.
From what I hear, it can start in the late thirties. It may be if you are old enough to be a parental figure of the interviewer.

I was pretty much "past my sell-by date," I guess.

That's sad.