Tech Or Management Beyond Age 39?

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?"

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Re:You will have to know tech either way

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If you don't mind me asking, why do you feel the need to insert newlines yourself rather than using the browser's built in word-wrapping? People should be able to set their own preferences for reading text (by changing the window size). If someone sets their window size smaller than your own then it's going to be even more annoying than having an irregular left justified paragraph. It actually has made me not want to read what you have written.

I've seen a couple
of other people
doing this too -
it just makes
your posts harder
to read, people!.
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