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Is software development really a dead-end job after age 35-40?

軟件開發(fā)在35-40歲之后真的是沒有前途的工作嗎?

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Steven Ussery
I am a 65-year-old software engineer who has worked for Apple, Adobe, eBay, Microsoft, VMware, Cisco, FileMaker, XO Communications, 2Wire, Egnyte, Nexsan, and two other start-ups. I have been laid off five times in my career. I always find another job within 3 to 4 weeks — even during a recession. I have had my job outsourced to India or China four times: especially in the last eight years. Nonetheless, there is always another employment opportunity waiting afterwards.
I love what I do. I’m still doing it; and, I have no immediate plans to stop doing it. Moreover, I am good at it. That’s not so much because I am a genius but rather because I have been doing software development for a really long time and I learned from my mistakes. In fact, there is no wide-spread computer language I can’t program in. Nor is there any OS platform I am not comfortable working on. And, besides the U.S., I have also worked overseas in Apple’s factories in China and Ireland. Besides English, I’ve learned to speak (poorly) Spanish and Italian, and I can manage about a ten phrases in Mandarin.
I have managed to do all this while successfully being married for 40 years, raised two adult children (one who is a Netflix software engineer), and I now have five grandchildren. According to the last Social Security report I receive annually from the government, my total lifetime income to date is: $3,042,040;?

我是一名65歲的軟件工程師，曾為蘋果、Adobe、eBay、微軟、VMware、思科、FileMaker、XO Communications、2Wire、Egnyte、Nexsan和其他兩家初創(chuàng)公司工作。在我的職業(yè)生涯中，我被解雇了五次。不過我總是在3到4周內(nèi)找到另一份工作——即使是在經(jīng)濟衰退期間也是如此。我曾四次將工作外包給印度或中國：尤其是在過去八年里。盡管如此，之后總會有另一個就業(yè)機會等著我。
我喜歡我做的事，我仍在做；而且，我沒有立即停止此類工作的計劃。而且，我很擅長。這并不是因為我是天才，而是因為我從事軟件開發(fā)已經(jīng)很長時間了，我從錯誤中吸取了教訓(xùn)。事實上，沒有一種廣泛傳播的計算機語言是我不能編寫程序的。也沒有任何操作系統(tǒng)平臺讓我為其工作時會感到不適應(yīng)。而且，除了美國，我還曾在中國和愛爾蘭的蘋果工廠工作。除了英語，我還學(xué)會了西班牙語和意大利語（說得不好），我能用普通話說大約10個短語。
我成功地做到了這一切，同時成功地維持婚姻40年，養(yǎng)育了兩個子女到成年（其中一個是Netflix軟件工程師），現(xiàn)在我有五個孫子。根據(jù)我每年從政府收到的最后一份社會保障報告，到目前為止，我至今取得的收入總額是:3,042,040美元。
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Having said all this, it is very much true that age discrimination and outsourcing is rampant in the Silicon Valley. Before age 45, I had a better than average chance of getting a job after a single interview. Now, at age 64, it takes me about ten interviews before I get the next job. Even then I sometimes have to work as a contractor without benefits. And, I have even learned to tolerate being interviewed by arrogant and entitled young preppies, most whom think they are somehow better than me even though they haven’t accomplished one tenth of what I have, nor have my superb academic credentials. (I have a B.S. in Civil Engineering and a M.S. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University — the latter at the top of my class.)
So, the answer to your question is: NO, software development is most certainly not a dead end job! It is a great job. Does it get tougher to get your next job as you get older? Oh hell yes. But, so what! If you love it as I do nothing but death or poor health can stop you. All it takes is a determination.
Never give up!

說了這么多，年齡歧視和外包在硅谷很普遍，這是千真萬確的。在45歲之前，我在一次面試后獲得工作的機會高于平均水平?，F(xiàn)在，在我64歲的時候，在我得到下一份工作之前，我需要大約十次面試。即使這樣，我有時也不得不做一個沒有福利的承包商。我甚至學(xué)會了容忍那些傲慢自大、自命不凡的年輕預(yù)科生們面試我，他們中的大多數(shù)人認為他們在某種程度上比我優(yōu)秀，盡管他們所取得的成就還不到我的十分之一，學(xué)歷也沒有我耀眼。（我擁有德州農(nóng)工大學(xué)的土木工程學(xué)士學(xué)位和計算機科學(xué)碩士學(xué)位，讀后者時的成績在我的班上名列前茅。）
所以，你的問題的答案是：不，軟件開發(fā)肯定不是一份沒有出路的工作！這是一份很棒的工作。隨著年齡的增長，找到下一份工作會變得更難嗎？哦，見鬼，是的。但是，那又怎樣！如果你像我一樣愛它，只有死亡或健康不佳可以阻止你—只要有決心。
永不放棄！
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Connor Stricklan
A software developer I know recently got a call from a recruiter at Google, asking what it would take for him to come to work for them.
This developer had actually already worked for Google, but he left about five years ago to pursue other projects, and he didn’t want to live in one of the cities that have a Google office. Even though he didn’t have a degree in computer science and never took a college course in OOP, he must have impressed them enough to keep him on the recruitment list these years later. The recruiter suggested maybe he could be interested in interviewing with the Project Loon team in Singapore.
He gave a little chuckle to the recruiter over the phone, and his first question was: You know how old I am, right? The recruiter confirmed that yes, his date of birth was on file, and that Google didn’t factor age into its recruitment policies. The developer agreed to think about the prospect and they agreed to touch base again in a week.
That 66-year-old developer is my father. He is collecting social security while being courted by Google. He had a fulfilling career running his own company, consulting, and being an employee. He made contributions during the early stages of numerous technologies such as TCP networking, USB protocols, 802.11b implementation, and military GPS. Then he was hired by Google in 2008, when he was 58.
While at Google, he wrote software in Java, a language that wasn’t even invented until he was 45. And he was an individual contributor, without having any other engineer report to him.
One of the great things about software development is it’s all about your passion to learn and ability to perform, which is demonstrated by my dad’s career and the careers of thousands others. If you don’t have those required ingredients, then sure, software development is a dead-end job at any age. But if you have the passion and skill, then it is not a dead-end job after 40, 50, or even 60.

我認識的一位軟件開發(fā)人員最近接到谷歌招聘人員的電話，詢問他需要什么條件才能為他們工作。
這位開發(fā)者實際上已經(jīng)為谷歌工作過，但他在大約五年前離開了谷歌，開始從事其他項目，他不想住在一個有谷歌辦公室的城市。盡管他沒有計算機科學(xué)學(xué)位，也從未上過面向?qū)ο缶幊痰拇髮W(xué)課程，但他一定給他們留下了深刻的印象，以至于多年后他仍在招募名單上。招聘人員表示他可能有興趣與新加坡的龍計劃團隊進行面試。
他在電話里咯咯地笑了笑，第一個問題是：你知道我多大了吧？招聘人員證實，知道，他的出生日期已存檔，谷歌沒有將年齡因素納入其招聘政策。開發(fā)商同意考慮前景，他們同意在一周內(nèi)再次聯(lián)系。
那個66歲的開發(fā)者是我的父親。他一邊領(lǐng)取社會保障，一邊被谷歌追捧。他有一個充實的職業(yè)生涯，經(jīng)營自己的公司，提供咨詢，并成為一名員工。他在許多技術(shù)的早期階段做出了貢獻，如TCP網(wǎng)絡(luò)、USB協(xié)議、802.11b實現(xiàn)和軍用GPS。2008年，58歲的他被谷歌聘用。
在谷歌工作期間，他用Java編寫軟件，Java是一種直到他45歲時才發(fā)明出的語言。他是一名獨立貢獻者，沒有任何其他工程師向他報告。
軟件開發(fā)的偉大之處之一就是你對學(xué)習(xí)的熱情和執(zhí)行的能力，我父親的職業(yè)生涯和成千上萬其他人的職業(yè)生涯都證明了這一點。如果你沒有這些必要的素質(zhì)，那么軟件開發(fā)在任何年齡都是一分沒有出路的工作。但是如果你有激情和技能，那么在40歲、50歲甚至60歲之后，這都不是一份沒有出路的工作。