[Tell It Right]

True that. But there's a life lesson in the article that us gray haired code jockeys can learn from: "If one hires a young graduate because he/she has specific skills, he/she will be cast aside in a few years when those same skills become obsolete."

In other words, going into the IT industry means accepting the responsibility of having to keep up with the changes. Most of us 50-somethings could see the changes were big in our teenage years when we were programming our TRS-80's and Commodore 64's before we were old enough to drive. So when we later made careers out of it we knew we were getting into a field that required us to keep up with whatever future changes came down the pike. If we don't commit to that, we chose the wrong industry.

[Harpotoo]

Yes you def got to be someone who can change with the times and current tech in IT.
I learned Data Processing (no IT back then)in the basement of the Empire State building (Empire Tech School).

[oldbill]

Keeping up with skill’s doesn’t matter.
It’s salaries.
You could be the leader in your field and a genius, but you command too high a salary and will be replaced by three Indians for the same salary.

Those CEOs with their MBAs and HR department heads with their gender studies degrees don’t know or care about technical skills and competence.

The good news?
I made a twenty year career fixing the lousy work of those cheap H1Bs.