"What I really love is tackling something no one else knows how to do, or maybe no one has ever tried to do. That's the most magical thing of all, figuring out how to write a program to do something totally unique, or even seemingly impossible."
Thank you, codist! That is the best description of myself that I have ever read. Whenever anyone asks my biggest strength, I tell them that the answer is always "yes". Whenever they ask my biggest weakness, I tell them that I don't want to work on something that someone else can do.
"Oh well, I am beyond getting the usual jobs via the usual methods, since no one hires a 51 years old programmer with up to date skills and 28 years experience being a passionate programmer who still loves to program."
Wrong. I'm older that you, codist, and I'm never out of work. It's got nothing to do with age, or skills, or politics, or dollars. It has everything to do with results. I'm currently helping a customer's customer solve a 9 figure business problem with software that none of them ever even imagined, because we just kept digging until we came up with it. Once you deliver something like that, people like them don't let people like us get away.
Thank you, codist! That is the best description of myself that I have ever read. Whenever anyone asks my biggest strength, I tell them that the answer is always "yes". Whenever they ask my biggest weakness, I tell them that I don't want to work on something that someone else can do.
"Oh well, I am beyond getting the usual jobs via the usual methods, since no one hires a 51 years old programmer with up to date skills and 28 years experience being a passionate programmer who still loves to program."
Wrong. I'm older that you, codist, and I'm never out of work. It's got nothing to do with age, or skills, or politics, or dollars. It has everything to do with results. I'm currently helping a customer's customer solve a 9 figure business problem with software that none of them ever even imagined, because we just kept digging until we came up with it. Once you deliver something like that, people like them don't let people like us get away.