I gave up on the computer business back in 2002.
I have zero interest spending my life having to compete and keep up with the with the never ending flow of new 18 yr old’s and constantly changing technology.
Same here -- gave up the same year.
It's not that the new languages are bad, it's that a lot of them weren't necessary. In 1998, I was hired to convert a suite of programs from VB5 to VB6 (?). In the process, we were to convert the functions into objects.
I set about learning what these newfangled "objects" were and completed the project. It was judged a huge success -- all the programs worked just as they had before except, of course, they were slower.
Heh. Time marches on. I didn't. No point.