Am I too old for IT

Courtesy DaniWeb IT Discussion Community - IT Careers and Business  Sat, 03/15/2008 - 14:32

I was a Unix, C, C++ programmer for 17 years then got out of IT during the 2001 dot com crash (to teach Junior/High School).

Teaching was/is rewarding but I want to finish my working years in IT. I've been taking some steps (updating my training, etc...) to return to IT but am wondering if my age will be a barrier.

I wanted to ask you code warriors out there if you have many fifty year old programmers in your...

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