[dools]

I don't think it's the case that experience is generally useless, but you need far fewer experienced people like this than you do cannon fodder to advance the front line a couple of centimetres.

There are people earning good scratch well into their "golden years" in the tech sector, but the demand for them is much weaker.

[taneq]

Isn’t that always the way? You need far more front line workers (whatever that means in your industry) than you need managers, and at most businesses advancement equals moving to management because there really isn’t far to grow technically..