Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Retrain?

Talcyon writes "I'm a 40-year-old developer, and it's become apparent that my .NET skillset is woefully out of date after five years of doing various bits of support. I tried the 'Management' thing last year, but that was a failure as I'm just not a people person, and a full-on development project this year has turned into a disaster area. I'm mainly a VB.NET person with skills from the .NET 2.0 era. Is that it? Do I give up a career in technology now? Or turn around and bury myself in a support role, sorting out issues with other people's/companies' software? I've been lurking around Slashdot for many years now, and this question occasionally comes up, but it pays to get the opinions of others. Do I retrain and get back up to speed, or am I too old?"

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Re:You Tell Me If You're Too Old; What Is Your Goa

[Monkey-Man2000]

Mod parent up because the answer is GP. OP was a mercenary for the bubble times and is not interested in tech, let him burn... Programming, like many professional fields, is one you have to continue to learn because the field develops. You can't just slide by with the crappy fad info your college was spinning through you when you were an undergraduate. This OP actually disgusts me a little and is a poor excuse for a techy...uggghhhh...