Ask Slashdot: Re-Entering the Job Market As a Software Engineer?

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 1, 2012 @10:43AM from the hope-springs-eternal dept.

First time accepted submitter martypantsROK writes "It's been over 15 years since my main job was a software engineer. Since then I have held positions as a Sales Engineer, then spent a few years actually doing sales as a sales rep (and found I hated it) and then got into teaching. I am still a teacher but I want to really get back into writing code for a living. In the past couple of years I've done a great deal of Javascript, PHP, Ajax, and Java, including some Android apps. So here's the question: How likely would I be to actually get a job writing code? Is continual experience in the field a must, or can a job candidate demonstrate enough current relevance and experience (minus an actual job) with a multi-year hiatus from software development jobs? I'll add, if you haven't already done the math, that I'm over 50 years old."

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Start your own company. by John+Hasler · 2012-01-01 10:57 · Score: -1, Troll

Nobody is going to hire you. You're "old people". No matter what you say or do no manager is going to believe that you know anything but FORTRAN and COBOL.

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Re:You COULD care less? by swalve · 2012-01-01 12:30 · Score: 1, Troll

So "could" and "could not" are equal now? Idiot.