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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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      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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          _WinBase_
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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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              • M Matt Bond

                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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                greypanda
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                My one-man team averages 80 years. But that's just because I outlived most of the companies I worked for.

                All programming languages suck. It's just that some of them were designed that way.

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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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                  Hooga Booga
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                  Average age of my team is 56. However, seeing I'm the only one in my team right now, that's a bit of a cheat.

                  Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx

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                    My one-man team averages 80 years. But that's just because I outlived most of the companies I worked for.

                    All programming languages suck. It's just that some of them were designed that way.

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                    jimpar
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                    4 people report to me and the average age of all 5 of us is 57. 64,63,63,60,37 My boss (36) and I discuss legacy planning all the time as any of the 4 can retire at any time. I'm one of the 63s, plan to retire 12/2025 but have a two week vacation coming up which will make me consider retiring soon.

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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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                      AReady
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                      Reading the answers I envy all of you! Lone coders (would be my favorite if I could find someone giving me tasks to do remotely) happy teams with people > 40... I'm 52 and at the moment I'm unemployed. My last stable job was few years ago but I resigned because I had a fight with a manager, then I worked on very interesting projects with startups and side projects on my own but the problem is I have no stable income and sometime they don't pay me at all. So, since 3 months, I'm looking for a stable job or for a good single project to work on. In 3 months I had many interviews and coding tests, I received a lot of compliments and promises, but... in the end they disappear I don't know if it's my age, or there are many other candidates, or these alleged employers are just scum. The salary asked was low or average so should not be that the reason. Let's hope for the future 🤞 Reading your posts brought me good mood anyway. Thanks and best wishes to all

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