Thank you. The article had a lot of info pertinent to my life. As a software engineer in my late 40’s who is not yet successful I realize that my chances for future career success are slim. Statistics say I’ll likely eke out an existence as a salaried guy with a resume rather than be successful. This however is no excuse for not trying. I can either shut up or prove them wrong.
Software comes and goes. Languages come and go. Development systems come and go. I was once godlike in certain computer languages, but at some point, the cost of pounding on a computer 20 hours a day becomes too high. Now I do data. There will always be data, and bigger data, and more of it. Generally, the only programming I do now is done within the database itself.
A heck of a lot of software exists for the single purpose of producing and processing data. Someone has to plan for it, analyze it, organize it, process it, and generally make sense of it. I don’t regret my career focus move.