The 50 year old programmer

[woohoo]

Linky: Software Developers After 40, 50 and 60 Who Hate Being A Manager, But Love Coding.

Really good read, got me thinking a little.

[nomadd]

Full dressers?

No, regular tourers.

I prefer to stay in a hotel at my destination, rather than drag it along with me.

[nomadd]

Linky: Software Developers After 40, 50 and 60 Who Hate Being A Manager, But Love Coding.

Kids.

Not a punched card between 'em.

Now, when I were a lad...

[BigRed]

I find it interesting that this seems to be about programming more than IT in general. I found that after 5 years of programming (PL/1 IBM Mainframe) it all got a bit boring and I had no desire to start completely from scratch. I moved to a DBA role and have felt that this normally expands and progresses rather than starting from scratch all the time although I'm now seeing the programmer mentality creeping in which seems to create a whole new database platform to fill a small gap in functionality of the existing ones. These address the gap but throw away all the good features of the existing solutions.

[vetran]

Ah, the smell of punched card chad in the morning, it smells of ........ History

FTFY

[NotAllThere]

Linky: Software Developers After 40, 50 and 60 Who Hate Being A Manager, But Love Coding.

I enjoyed being a manager, but much prefer coding. My clients will say "can you do this and this?" on some new bit of technology. I just say yes... and enjoy the pressure of having to deliver.

[nomadd]

My clients will say "can you do this and this?"..

..and this. ..and this. ..and this.

No Direction and Control here, your Honour. None whatsoever.

I swept those floors because..? They were dirty!

[woohoo]

I enjoyed being a manager, but much prefer coding. My clients will say "can you do this and this?" on some new bit of technology. I just say yes... and enjoy the pressure of having to deliver.

I enjoyed managing, and studied a management degree, which was surprisingly interesting. Found that I enjoyed developing more though.

A mate moved up to Newcastle to take on a management role within his company. First day he had two women come into his office, they where arguing and crying. Obviously a long standing feud and saw the new manager as an opportunity.

Anyway, he asked to go back to programming before the day was out. If anyone is interested the women that wasn't the bosses daughter was let go.

[56samba]

There was a "motorbike regatta", where hundreds of blokes dressed up in 30-40's dapper gear, rode into town on their vintage motor bikes.

Admittedly some of them didn't look ridiculous, but a lot of them did.

I guess you're talking about the DGR www.gentlemansride.com the charity ride raising millions globally for mens cancer charities. It was a lot of fun

[NotAllThere]

..and this. ..and this. ..and this.

No Direction and Control here, your Honour. None whatsoever.

Don't care - 'cos I lived in a civilised country with reasonable tax laws, not your IR35 raddled hell-hole of a land.

I did nearly end up doing some R. But thankfully the work turned out not to be necessary.