[bruce511]

Depends on uour definition of "older". In this niche, no, being an older worker would be detrimental. The root underlying problem (in any niche really) are people aging out the system, leaving a lot more work to be done by fewer people. 40 would be OK. 60 would be too old.

Clearly you -could- learn it now, but the effort would be immense. In the same way that you could learn to be a doctor, but at some point it becomes too much like hard work.

Also, unfortunately, there's a cost to entry. It's proprietary software, and you'd need around $5000 to get kitted out. Plus a lot of time.

On the other hand, yes it can be done remotely.