I'm now in my forties, and it never occurred to me to think of that as an impediment to getting a software engineering job. And I've not heard complaints from people in their fifties, either. I've also worked with several teams based in Boston, Cambridge and Nashua that included people older than me. What matters more is how current one's skills are — and in an industry where things can become obsolete overnight, having been around for a few extra decades isn't especially worrying in that respect, surely?
To state the obvious, there will be more tech jobs in Silicon Glen, Silicon Fen, Manchester or London than in Dundee. The cost of living is higher as well, of course, but these are the tradeoffs we make.
Do you have any experience of working from home and telecommuting? It's definitely not for me, personally, but if it worked for you, you could live up there and work for practically anybody!
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Date: 2016-02-03 07:28 pm (UTC)I'm now in my forties, and it never occurred to me to think of that as an impediment to getting a software engineering job. And I've not heard complaints from people in their fifties, either. I've also worked with several teams based in Boston, Cambridge and Nashua that included people older than me. What matters more is how current one's skills are — and in an industry where things can become obsolete overnight, having been around for a few extra decades isn't especially worrying in that respect, surely?
To state the obvious, there will be more tech jobs in Silicon Glen, Silicon Fen, Manchester or London than in Dundee. The cost of living is higher as well, of course, but these are the tradeoffs we make.
Do you have any experience of working from home and telecommuting? It's definitely not for me, personally, but if it worked for you, you could live up there and work for practically anybody!