Category Archives: career

When is too Old

Jan
6
2007

If you haven’t heard it personally you will know someone how has:

I’m getting too old for this, but I hope I can finish this one last project/design before I’m forced out.

This is often from an extremely experienced coder/designer over 40. It’s an old problem. It goes back to the 1970’s even. But still today it’s present even in the web industry. But why? Are we valuing the perceived spirit of creativity, youth and cheap labour over experience too much?