Is there life after code?

skimread said:
I see a lot of people write on their skills matrix all these varying programming languages but that doesn't necessary mean they have an active software being used, let alone used by thousands of users.
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Because of that.
 
semaphore said:
Because of that.
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The post was in the context of the OPs oriignal question to show he is making it sound much worse than it is. He should instead focus on the positive. You should read the sentence as a response to his post

Crux said:
So here's the question, what happens to programmers who's been at it for 15+ years?

Do they shrivel up due to all the coffee, do they create their own little personal tesseract (a la Interstellar movie) in order to never have contact with a project manager again, or does Management simply fold them up and stack them in a basement somewhere for when they need people who understand their archaic systems 20 years from now?

Or is there something else?

I mean, if you're between 30 and 40 years old, your basically a pioneer in this field. Congratulations. So, now what?
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