However, one cannot blame the employers who generally look for best skills at best prices, but here are some advices to those whose hair is beginning to grey to keep themselves being employed for long run.

#1 Move up the ladder into management, architecture, or design, and diversify your experience. Work with business executives in your company, in areas such as sales, finance, marketing/product management, legal, and operations. Develop a broader set of skills that make you more valuable to your employer and that differentiate you from others with just coding skills.

#2 Become an entrepreneur. Your experience will come handy as you know more about industries and markets, and have ideas for products that the world actually needs and a better ability to motivate and manage than a kid out of school does.

#3 Keep your skills current. This means keeping up to date with the latest trends in computing, programming techniques, and languages, and adapting to change.

#4 If you’re going to stay in programming, realize that the deck is stacked against you. Even though you may be highly experienced and wise, employers aren’t willing or able to pay an experienced worker twice or thrice what an entry-level worker earns. Save as much as you can when you’re in your 30s and 40s, and be prepared to earn less as you gain experience.

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