[jebblue]

>> I disagree with this assertion. To be a software engineer is to be in a constant state of learning.

3 years ago at age 47 I interviewed at a promising game company in Austin, TX. The first thing the smug young guy said after weighing my resume by holding it in the air in the palm of his hand was, "pretty long resume, huh?".

I game every day, I developed a simple game for fun in the 90s'. I get gaming and what gamers like. I can do programming, hold my own with new or old technologies, do front-end, back-end, embedded, you name it and the most important thing he had to say to me was, "pretty long resume, huh?".

Come to think of it, many places I've interviewed at in Austin are like that, I call it the UT attitude.