Yup, there will be a place for me in the IT industry when I hit 50... How do I know that? I'm already 50+ and I've got a great Software Engineering job.
This is good to know, at least there is still hope :)
Sorry you feel you haven't been given a fair shot, but I would challenge you to look inward and ask yourself what you could be doing to improve how you communicate the skills you have to recruiters. Can you write blog posts about the skills you have? Can you show a portfolio of projects that you have developed? Have you contributed to open source projects? Have you presented at a Meetup? Have you presented things about software topics at previous software gigs? Have you mentored others?
Yes I have done all this and more. My sons business website is up on Heroku, my blog is up on Gatsby Cloud, my resume is up on AWS, maintained several packages in Debian and was an uploading developer for Ubuntu. I even moved to Seattle from Texas to be "more appealing to potential employers".
After a 4 year journey that's not over yet, I have looked inwards many times wondering whats wrong with me, what am I doing wrong, why can't I do this, what can I do better. I appreciate your advise and it's good advise that others should follow, but so far it has not yielded any results for me. But who knows maybe one day :)
Happy Coding
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This is good to know, at least there is still hope :)
Yes I have done all this and more. My sons business website is up on Heroku, my blog is up on Gatsby Cloud, my resume is up on AWS, maintained several packages in Debian and was an uploading developer for Ubuntu. I even moved to Seattle from Texas to be "more appealing to potential employers".
After a 4 year journey that's not over yet, I have looked inwards many times wondering whats wrong with me, what am I doing wrong, why can't I do this, what can I do better. I appreciate your advise and it's good advise that others should follow, but so far it has not yielded any results for me. But who knows maybe one day :)
Happy Coding