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  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

    The average age for my team is 62. But then, there is only me ... :laugh:

    "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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    Mathew Crothers
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    Statistically speaking, you are the youngest in your team then.

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      Statistically speaking, you are the youngest in your team then.

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      OriginalGriff
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      Technically yes - and also that I have no-one else to blame if we run out of coffee ... :-D

      "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

      "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
      "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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      • M Mathew Crothers

        I just calculated the average age for my team and it turns out we are old. We have an average age of 54 which seems high in the grand scheme of things. We are still holding our own very well though. so I was just wondering if anyone else had an older team and how they are handling grey beardedness.

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        Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter
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        We range from 56 to 22... Majority over 40... The youngsters regularly amazed by the resourcefulness of the old folks... (and we do not tell them that this is all hurting experience of the past years :-))

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        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

          The average age for my team is 62. But then, there is only me ... :laugh:

          "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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          Cp Coder
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          Obviously your team is a spring chicken! :-D My team (Yes - only me) is approaching 78. :sigh:

          Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

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          • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

            Technically yes - and also that I have no-one else to blame if we run out of coffee ... :-D

            "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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            Cp Coder
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            no-one else to blame if we run out of coffee

            Here in Florida I blame the lawyers. In the USA they are to blame for all evils!

            Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

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              Obviously your team is a spring chicken! :-D My team (Yes - only me) is approaching 78. :sigh:

              Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

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              OriginalGriff
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              That's only 41 in Mars years! :-D

              "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

              "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
              "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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              • D Daniel Pfeffer

                We have four people in their 50s on the team, but the average age is brought down by a few young'uns in their 40s, 30s, and even two 20s. As for how we manage, youth and enthusiasm will never be a match for age and experience. :)

                Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

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                Jorgen Andersson
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                Daniel Pfeffer wrote:

                youth and enthusiasm will never be a match for age and experience

                Or at least experience. Age usually comes with it, but there are exceptions. Especially in the other direction.

                Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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                • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                  The average age for my team is 62. But then, there is only me ... :laugh:

                  "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                  DerekT P
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                  Ditto on both counts (though not for much longer) :)

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                  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                    The average age for my team is 62. But then, there is only me ... :laugh:

                    "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                    pkfox
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                    67 and only me.

                    "I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

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                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                      That's only 41 in Mars years! :-D

                      "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                      That's only 41 in Mars years!

                      Well blow me down! Elon: Sign me up for the first trip to Mars! :-D

                      Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

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                      • J Jorgen Andersson

                        Daniel Pfeffer wrote:

                        youth and enthusiasm will never be a match for age and experience

                        Or at least experience. Age usually comes with it, but there are exceptions. Especially in the other direction.

                        Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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                        theoldfool
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                        Or at least experience.

                        Yes. Experience: recognizing a mistake the second time you make it. :)

                        If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.

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                          no-one else to blame if we run out of coffee

                          Here in Florida I blame the lawyers. In the USA they are to blame for all evils!

                          Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

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                          W Balboos GHB
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                          Cp-Coder wrote:

                          lawyers. In the USA they are to blame for all evils!

                          Yeah - until you need one.

                          Ravings en masse^

                          "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                          "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                            Or at least experience.

                            Yes. Experience: recognizing a mistake the second time you make it. :)

                            If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.

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                            charlieg
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                            yeah, need to upvote that :)

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                            • M Mathew Crothers

                              I just calculated the average age for my team and it turns out we are old. We have an average age of 54 which seems high in the grand scheme of things. We are still holding our own very well though. so I was just wondering if anyone else had an older team and how they are handling grey beardedness.

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                              Gary R Wheeler
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                              My team: 65, 64, 59 (me), 57, 45-ish, and 23. #65 is retiring in June, and #23 just started. Collectively, we have over 100 man-years experience in our product line. My boss, who just took over from the previous boss who retired, is busily writing job req's to fill positions.

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                              • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                The average age for my team is 62. But then, there is only me ... :laugh:

                                "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                                Chris Nic
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                                I see your 62 and raise you to 68

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                                • M Mathew Crothers

                                  I just calculated the average age for my team and it turns out we are old. We have an average age of 54 which seems high in the grand scheme of things. We are still holding our own very well though. so I was just wondering if anyone else had an older team and how they are handling grey beardedness.

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                                  Derek Hunter
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                                  (59 + 50 + 45 + 22) / 4 = 44 But splitting the difference between the median values 'feels' more representative: (50 + 45) /2 = 47.5

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                                  • M Mathew Crothers

                                    I just calculated the average age for my team and it turns out we are old. We have an average age of 54 which seems high in the grand scheme of things. We are still holding our own very well though. so I was just wondering if anyone else had an older team and how they are handling grey beardedness.

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                                    grralph1
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                                    Being a lone wolf it is much easier to work out the average age of my team, and is it greater than yours.

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                                    ....and how they are handling grey beardedness.

                                    Proudly. When it turned white I grew my beard longer.

                                    "Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980

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                                    • M Mathew Crothers

                                      I just calculated the average age for my team and it turns out we are old. We have an average age of 54 which seems high in the grand scheme of things. We are still holding our own very well though. so I was just wondering if anyone else had an older team and how they are handling grey beardedness.

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                                      i'm a self employed team of one, 60yo this year, been programming for a living for 40+years and feel i'm writing some of the best code of my life, ive learned more new languages and technologies (to me) over the last 2 years including xamarin, python, blazor, net core, & unity to name a few. The only slightly negative i'm finding is that i need to refer back more and more to projects for syntax and snippets as i just can't keep it all in my head anymore, there's just too much of it, but it's no biggie really, but i still look back fondly on the days when the word PC's hadnt been invented, with MS-DOS and character based systems ruling the landscape, when a programmer could actually learn almost everything they needed. I can't remember the words geek or nerd existing then, you were a 'computer wizard' and people assumed you had a brain like a planet as the word 'computer' struck fear into so many heart's - ahhh nostalgia aint what it used to be, but i'm rambling on like some kind of old man... GL

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                                      • M Mathew Crothers

                                        I just calculated the average age for my team and it turns out we are old. We have an average age of 54 which seems high in the grand scheme of things. We are still holding our own very well though. so I was just wondering if anyone else had an older team and how they are handling grey beardedness.

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                                        Matt Bond
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                                        I don't have exact ages, but onshore, we have 65, 58, 48 for devs. Our single QA is 35. Offshore, everyone is in their 20's or 30's. Everyone is just as resourceful as everyone else. However, the oldest is the only one that knows COBOL, which we use. Good thing we are retiring the program in the next few years. FYI: Our offshore personnel are not contractors, but rather just employees in another country. Bond Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere

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                                        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                          The average age for my team is 62. But then, there is only me ... :laugh:

                                          "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                                          Slow Eddie
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                                          Right there with you but average of my team is 71.

                                          It's always worse than it seems.

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