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I'll be reaching 63 in August. Still putting in 55 to 70 hour weeks on a regular basis. I write software and manage a development group. The people with a PMP cert get to call the shots and manage the money. Most of them are not literate in software and systems design. It takes a lot of time and money to stay on the leading edge of tech. I'll do it for a few more years, then happily hang my hat. The most frustrating thing is most of my engagements are bailing out projects that made poor decisions at the proposal stage. You have to live with the poor choices and try to make a silk purse of out of a sow's ear.

I’m 60+ with many years in IT security. I’m presently in the process of starting a new IT company in Panama. This will eventually enable me to start hiring in the US. I’m on a short fuse, though, as would really like to retire in 3-4 years.

I’ll be going down fighting. :)

That's the type of IT that would have driven me to put a gun in my mouth. I've done everything on the other end - Zero Day infections, malware, building and testing images, HW/SW break/fix, stabbing in everything from servers to switches, data center on-call, network admin on every level there is, every sort of troubleshooting you can think of. I'm the older, grizzled Dutch boy who had to plug his fingers and toes in the dike to keep the whole thing from coming apart. I can't do anything like I used to. No more lifting printer or UPS banks into racks, pulling cable, or even sitting at a desk for eight hours at a time. My fingers don't even work properly on a keyboard anymore. My brain can still go like a house on fire, but below the neck, I've got so many issues I'm lucky I'm not wearing protective headgear and an exo-skeleton. LOL I still get around, but as an example, we were going to church last Sunday, and my wife turned to me and said, "What is wrong with you? You're driving like you're 90 years old! Pick a lane and stay in it!" That, from a woman who used to always howl like a banshee about me doing Warp Three on the interstate. LOL We have the same doctor, and after my last episode, she told him about it during her exam. He didn't even look up from his laptop. He just shook his head and told her I was just falling apart. Boy, that's comforting. 🙄