> As he grows older, he has noticed it becomes increasingly difficult to find work, even though he would love to continue working for the years to come.
There’s a significant age bias in the tech community that might be hard to overcome.
Just make sure he knows his rights during the hiring process that it’s not acceptable for a company to not hire him based on age.
2 - language
Learning a new modern language like Node/JS will be a brutal race to the bottom in a highly competitive marketplace.
However there are some jobs that pay great money to folks who know older languages like COBOL, Perl, etc., maintaining old systems. And I’m guessing he’ll find the work and coworkers more relatable. These jobs are just much more scarce.
A question he might get from having an impressive C-suite resume and applying for programming jobs is: why? So just be prepared to answer that.
And probably have him build one or two personal projects so he can make sure he likes the process and has something to showcase.
1 - age
> As he grows older, he has noticed it becomes increasingly difficult to find work, even though he would love to continue working for the years to come.
There’s a significant age bias in the tech community that might be hard to overcome.
He is in a protected age class though: https://www.eeoc.gov/age-discrimination
Just make sure he knows his rights during the hiring process that it’s not acceptable for a company to not hire him based on age.
2 - language
Learning a new modern language like Node/JS will be a brutal race to the bottom in a highly competitive marketplace.
However there are some jobs that pay great money to folks who know older languages like COBOL, Perl, etc., maintaining old systems. And I’m guessing he’ll find the work and coworkers more relatable. These jobs are just much more scarce.
A question he might get from having an impressive C-suite resume and applying for programming jobs is: why? So just be prepared to answer that.
And probably have him build one or two personal projects so he can make sure he likes the process and has something to showcase.
Good luck!