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Title: If you are in tech and elderly (over 30), there is a resort and program for you!
Post by: MillCreek on March 05, 2019, 10:24:51 AM: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/technology/modern-elder-resort-silicon-valley-ageism.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Time to check out and make room for younger tech workers, Gramps.
Title: Re: If you are in tech and elderly (over 30), there is a resort and program for you!
Post by: WLJ on March 05, 2019, 10:25:54 AM: 30 is Elderly
It's the 60s all over again
Title: Re: If you are in tech and elderly (over 30), there is a resort and program for you!
Post by: MechAg94 on March 05, 2019, 12:39:09 PM: When I started out, they were still using punch cards to program the mainframe! :old:
Title: Re: If you are in tech and elderly (over 30), there is a resort and program for you!
Post by: lee n. field on March 05, 2019, 03:30:55 PM: Quote
In and around San Francisco, the conventional wisdom is that tech jobs require a limber, associative mind and an appetite for risk — both of which lessen with age.

Whatever.

Being older also means you've seen a lot more than the punk kids.

63, and wondering how and when to get off this treadmill.
Title: Re: If you are in tech and elderly (over 30), there is a resort and program for you!
Post by: HankB on March 06, 2019, 10:52:32 AM: Quote from: MechAg94 on March 05, 2019, 12:39:09 PM
When I started out, they were still using punch cards to program the mainframe! :old:
Same here - I had a couple of cabinets MADE for punch cards to store my designs.

(Remember card saws and aperture cards?)