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I once did some work in a bank in Frankfurt, where at least some of the original team of developers who built the mainframe in the 1960's were still there, almost 40 years later.
In 30 years time there will be a bunch of doddery old Dot NET developers trying to keep the legacy systems going.
Any reasonable contractor should have retired by 50 anyway. Either they're crap or have wasted their money.
I'll be retiring at 48 in 4 years time to do some full time studying and then see where life takes me.
I was thinking about doing that until some of my mates started retiring aged 50 odd and all seem to be having problems keeping themselves occupied or well. One problem that I frequently see is that their carefully laid plans turn out to be not as interesting as they thought they would be.
I think cutting down rather than stopping is a better approach as you really need to do something to avoid going doolally.
You honestly think you'll be able to secure IT contracts aged 60 or 70?
Dream on. This career ends at 50 tops.
Seeing what Bob is doing to f#@k up the current systems, I am sure there will be a lot of work to keep me going, as there will not be enough trained European contractors.
Very short sighted European companies means boom for me.
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