[mrbird]

Is there any published research on what CS majors or people working as software engineers in their 20s are doing at age 30, 40, 50, 60?

As many has observed, the numbers don't make sense for everyone to be a manager or CTO.

I definitely sense anxiety when people talk about their future - "I know I don't want to still be coding in 10 years" - but I wonder if that's partly an incomplete picture of what others are doing.

[collyw]

I do want to be coding in ten years, but I realise I also want to be respected for my experience. At the moment, despite having designed and implemented the database and front end that my entire organisation runs on, they decide that I ought to be fixing dumb excel errors, rather than writing an interface that would rid them of all the problems they get from using Excel in the first place.