<story><title>You’re How Old? We’ll Be in Touch</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/opinion/sunday/youre-how-old-well-be-in-touch.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hirundo</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a grey beard who applied to a company specifically advertising for young developers. Got the job without mentioning my vintage. That was six years ago and they still haven&amp;#x27;t seen my face. I waited a while to gently break the news to them. If you&amp;#x27;re a technological senior citizen remote work is your friend.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>markbnj</author><text>Heh, I applied for and landed a position on the SRE team of a youngish startup that is almost entirely remote. I&amp;#x27;m 55 and there is one other guy in his 40&amp;#x27;s I think who works out of Northern Cal. Other than him I&amp;#x27;m 20 years older than everyone else and it&amp;#x27;s been a blast. We recently did a week-long retreat and I had a truly good time, which surprised me. Really the only thing I can say after 20 years in the business is you just never know. I got lucky this time around and fell in with a group of people who are perfect for me.</text></comment>
<story><title>You’re How Old? We’ll Be in Touch</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/opinion/sunday/youre-how-old-well-be-in-touch.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hirundo</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a grey beard who applied to a company specifically advertising for young developers. Got the job without mentioning my vintage. That was six years ago and they still haven&amp;#x27;t seen my face. I waited a while to gently break the news to them. If you&amp;#x27;re a technological senior citizen remote work is your friend.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ourmandave</author><text>Ah, &amp;quot;Grey beard&amp;quot;. The term Microsoft used to separate the old from the young at a conference when they first introduced the .NET framework. Classic &amp;quot;old bad, good new&amp;quot; sales.&lt;p&gt;As in, &amp;quot;you Grey Breads remember using C++ and MFC, etc.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Yes I remember. Because it was yesterday just before I came to your conference!&lt;p&gt;I still went home and started learning what the hell XML was though. =(</text></comment>