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Job Chances for Older Coders?
emtboy9 asks: "As the semester winds to a close, exams fall upon us students once again. Today, outside of one of my programming classes, I overheard a conversation between a pair of middle aged women about programming degrees (which they are involved in), and this made me wonder. With the job market in IT being as pathetic as it is, what are the real-world chances of someone who is taking a programming course getting a job. In the places I have worked, all the coders were fairly young. So the question is, what are the chances for an older person, who is just now learning programming to get a job in that field?" Ask Slashdot last touched on this topic back in February of 2001. In the intervening two years, have things gotten worse or better for those who have been in the industry for a long time?
"With the increasing popularity in such places, tech and trade schools and even colleges and universities are spitting out MCSEs, CCNAs, A+, Net+, etc certified techs, as well as people of all ages (one person in my VB class is nearly 60) who are trained to write code.
With that in mind, I guess I thought I would throw that out to the Slashdot crowd to see what kind of experiences they have either as a middle aged person entering the IT workforce for the first time, or as a younger tech, or even a manager, faced with either working with, or hiring someone who is from a completely different generation."
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Today, outside of one of my programming classes, I overheard a conversation between a pair of middle aged women about programming degrees (which they are involved in)
You go to a community college, don't you?
Hey,guys. Slashdot sucks!
--M.
Younger people are having major problems finding jobs, forget about older people. With all the open source products working to unemploy coders everywhere, it's really not that surprising that there's a crunch in this market sector. You guys got what you asked for.
--sdem
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1In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth --
2the earth hath existed waste and void, and darkness [is] on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the waters,
3and God saith, `Let light be;' and light is.
4And God seeth the light that [it is] good, and God separateth between the light and the darkness,
5and God calleth to the light `Day,' and to the darkness He hath called `Night;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day one.
6And God saith, `Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and let it be separating between waters and waters.'
7And God maketh the expanse, and it separateth between the waters which [are] under the expanse, and the waters which [are] above the expanse: and it is so.
8And God calleth to the expanse `Heavens;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day second.
9And God saith, `Let the waters under the heavens be collected unto one place, and let the dry land be seen:' and it is so.
10And God calleth to the dry land `Earth,' and to the collection of the waters He hath called `Seas;' and God seeth that [it is] good.
11And God saith, `Let the earth yield tender grass, herb sowing seed, fruit-tree (whose seed [is] in itself) making fruit after its kind, on the earth:' and it is so.
12And the earth bringeth forth tender grass, herb sowing seed after its kind, and tree making fruit (whose seed [is] in itself) after its kind; and God seeth that [it is] good;
13and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day third.
14And God saith, `Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to make a separation between the day and the night, then they have been for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years,
15and they have been for luminaries in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth:' and it is so.
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17and God giveth them in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth,
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19and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day fourth.
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22And God blesseth them, saying, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and the fowl let multiply in the earth:'
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Were I work their is no old people working hear doing the coding because old people dont know how to make computers programs!
- Why is there no open source heart monitor or GNU drug delivery system firmware?
- Why doesn't the Space Shuttle run Linux?
- Why don't more Fortune 500 companies run MySQL instead of Oracle?
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SARS will fix it. Or something like it will. We are due for a plague to sweep through and take out 10-20% of the population. Chances are it takes out more of the old (who have accumulated the wealth) resulting in a redistribution of power and an end to unemployment.
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