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Tech Or Management Beyond Age 39?

Posted by kdawson on from the when-you-come-to-a-fork-in-the-road-take-it dept.

relliker writes "So here I am at age 39 with two contractual possibilities, for practically the same pay. With one, I continue being a techie for the foreseeable future — always having to keep myself up-to-date on everything tech and re-inventing myself with each Web.x release to stay on top. With the other, I'm being offered a chance to get into management, something I also enjoy doing and am seriously considering for the rest of my working life. The issue here is the age of my grey matter. Will I still be employable in tech at this age and beyond? Or should I relinquish the struggle to keep up with progress and take the comfy 'old man' management route so that I can stay employable even in my twilight years? What would Slashdot veterans advise at this age?"

4 of 592 comments (clear)

  1. Re:management by curmudgeon99 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hear the irony in your comment: just trying to weed out the competition by sending them over the cliff that is management, ay? Pretty fiendish...

  2. Re:Run Like Your Hair Is On Fire... by Nefarious+Wheel · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...your staff is your tools...

    Yeah, I felt that way about some of mine too. But there were a few good ones.

    --
    Do not mock my vision of impractical footwear
  3. Re:...and the pursuit of happiness by EdIII · · Score: 4, Funny

    The only reason people want money is for happiness.

    Sometimes it is for unnecessarily slow moving dipping mechanisms, hollowed out magma lairs, and sharks with frikkin' laser beams attached their heads. Oh wait... that's happiness too. Nevermind.

  4. Re:You will have to know tech either way by WillKemp · · Score: 5, Funny

    Being 39 doesn't make you 'too old for tech'... being lazy, unwilling to change, inexperienced and out of touch does.

    Conveniently, those are also required qualifications for being a manager!