> As some one who is in 20's and watching people in their 40's(My uncles) and my father(in his 60's) I can tell you the only chance we engineers have is to make loads of money, real estate and savings before we are 40-45. Else we are screwed
Bull Shit. Stereotypes are just stereotypes. If you follow one you will be one. I am 41 year old engineer(programmer) & Entrepreneur. One project I am coding now has Java, C++, Go all together. The younger programmers in my team were sort of scared to touch C++ part. I am encouraging one of them to learn Go.
I do two projects at a time, one of my own and another for a client. Support the former a bit with the consulting money I get from the latter.
I wrote the above to counter your ageist myths. You are younger and I presume flexible enough to correct them :-)
Bull Shit. Stereotypes are just stereotypes. If you follow one you will be one. I am 41 year old engineer(programmer) & Entrepreneur. One project I am coding now has Java, C++, Go all together. The younger programmers in my team were sort of scared to touch C++ part. I am encouraging one of them to learn Go.
I do two projects at a time, one of my own and another for a client. Support the former a bit with the consulting money I get from the latter.
I wrote the above to counter your ageist myths. You are younger and I presume flexible enough to correct them :-)
PS: I didn't down vote you BTW.