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I am a 55 year old retired person, having retired from active service in 2018, having worked as a Windows Developer (including WPF) and a Scrum Master / Project Manager. After that, worked a little with Web technologies, knowing nothing more than a basic JavaScript, as you can see from some of my latest articles. Now, I have got a work-from-home part-time opportunity in working on (hands-on) an imaging and graphing application which uses WPF, and MVVM. Though I am not actively on the job market, I feel inclined to take up this opportunity. Though not the latest and greatest technologies like React, Angular, Kotlin, Android, iOS, etc., what I will be working on, is good-old-Windows-Desktop-Application-Programming, which I enjoy. If you were in my shoes, would you endeavour into getting into this assignment?
I would only come out of retirement for a project that spoke to me on some important level. If finances were tight, then I would come out of retirement for any project I had most of the skill sets the project/position was looking for. Side thought: I don't learn new technologies, etc. as quickly as I did when I was 25, I am almost 50 now. It will be worse when I am 60+, I am sure. Most of the junior devs on my team are under 30 and grok things much quicker than I do.
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I am a 55 year old retired person, having retired from active service in 2018, having worked as a Windows Developer (including WPF) and a Scrum Master / Project Manager. After that, worked a little with Web technologies, knowing nothing more than a basic JavaScript, as you can see from some of my latest articles. Now, I have got a work-from-home part-time opportunity in working on (hands-on) an imaging and graphing application which uses WPF, and MVVM. Though I am not actively on the job market, I feel inclined to take up this opportunity. Though not the latest and greatest technologies like React, Angular, Kotlin, Android, iOS, etc., what I will be working on, is good-old-Windows-Desktop-Application-Programming, which I enjoy. If you were in my shoes, would you endeavour into getting into this assignment?
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what I will be working on, is good-old-Windows-Desktop-Application-Programming, which I enjoy.
If you enjoy then go for it. You've already said
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I feel inclined to take up this opportunity
Then go for it.
Though not the latest and greatest technologies like
Fixed that for you :laugh: Edit: I meant to say, I did something very similar 4 years ago. Had sort of retired, then decided to go back to work largely for the challenges (which I enjoy). Not enough challenges just answering QA here on CP :laugh:
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I am a 55 year old retired person, having retired from active service in 2018, having worked as a Windows Developer (including WPF) and a Scrum Master / Project Manager. After that, worked a little with Web technologies, knowing nothing more than a basic JavaScript, as you can see from some of my latest articles. Now, I have got a work-from-home part-time opportunity in working on (hands-on) an imaging and graphing application which uses WPF, and MVVM. Though I am not actively on the job market, I feel inclined to take up this opportunity. Though not the latest and greatest technologies like React, Angular, Kotlin, Android, iOS, etc., what I will be working on, is good-old-Windows-Desktop-Application-Programming, which I enjoy. If you were in my shoes, would you endeavour into getting into this assignment?
That depends... If I retired before 55 I'd probably have boatloads of money or I wouldn't be able to hold out for another 30 to 40 years or so without a steady income. And if I had boatloads of money, I wouldn't need the job. And a lot of great games have been released recently, so I'd probably find myself preoccupied... :laugh: Only you can answer this question, really. Do you need the money, do you like the work, do you like working in a team again, are you bored otherwise, do you need to get away from your wife/kids... You can always take the job, go through your trial period and quit after one or two months if it isn't what you expected it to be.
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what I will be working on, is good-old-Windows-Desktop-Application-Programming, which I enjoy.
If you enjoy then go for it. You've already said
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I feel inclined to take up this opportunity
Then go for it.
Though not the latest and greatest technologies like
Fixed that for you :laugh: Edit: I meant to say, I did something very similar 4 years ago. Had sort of retired, then decided to go back to work largely for the challenges (which I enjoy). Not enough challenges just answering QA here on CP :laugh:
CHill60 wrote:
Not enough challenges just answering QA here on CP
The real challenge is often in finding what these people want in the first place :laugh:
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That depends... If I retired before 55 I'd probably have boatloads of money or I wouldn't be able to hold out for another 30 to 40 years or so without a steady income. And if I had boatloads of money, I wouldn't need the job. And a lot of great games have been released recently, so I'd probably find myself preoccupied... :laugh: Only you can answer this question, really. Do you need the money, do you like the work, do you like working in a team again, are you bored otherwise, do you need to get away from your wife/kids... You can always take the job, go through your trial period and quit after one or two months if it isn't what you expected it to be.
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Though not a boatful of money, money is not a problem right now. I am occupied part-time with what I like to do otherwise (which is spirituality), and this programming assignment is for the remaining part-time, which is what I am comfortable with. This is the reason for my inclination towards this.
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I am a 55 year old retired person, having retired from active service in 2018, having worked as a Windows Developer (including WPF) and a Scrum Master / Project Manager. After that, worked a little with Web technologies, knowing nothing more than a basic JavaScript, as you can see from some of my latest articles. Now, I have got a work-from-home part-time opportunity in working on (hands-on) an imaging and graphing application which uses WPF, and MVVM. Though I am not actively on the job market, I feel inclined to take up this opportunity. Though not the latest and greatest technologies like React, Angular, Kotlin, Android, iOS, etc., what I will be working on, is good-old-Windows-Desktop-Application-Programming, which I enjoy. If you were in my shoes, would you endeavour into getting into this assignment?
I would take it if it looks interesting and the people would be pleasant to work for/with. I "retired" at 54 and was fine with it. Eventually, I missed the good parts of the grind and started contracting. Too many "part time" jobs were for 60 hours a week for 2 months, avoided them. Found great folks to contract for and jobs included some travel. Still have my hand in some IT stuff, just a few hours a month, remote (mostly surveillance cameras). Been doing that for 30 some years.
>64 If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I would only come out of retirement for a project that spoke to me on some important level. If finances were tight, then I would come out of retirement for any project I had most of the skill sets the project/position was looking for. Side thought: I don't learn new technologies, etc. as quickly as I did when I was 25, I am almost 50 now. It will be worse when I am 60+, I am sure. Most of the junior devs on my team are under 30 and grok things much quicker than I do.
I agree that it is not easy to learn new technologies at this age. However, this is a known one, general desktop Windows programming, which I am familiar with.
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I would take it if it looks interesting and the people would be pleasant to work for/with. I "retired" at 54 and was fine with it. Eventually, I missed the good parts of the grind and started contracting. Too many "part time" jobs were for 60 hours a week for 2 months, avoided them. Found great folks to contract for and jobs included some travel. Still have my hand in some IT stuff, just a few hours a month, remote (mostly surveillance cameras). Been doing that for 30 some years.
>64 If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
Surely looks interesting - image viewing and graphing, which I've done for more than 10 years.
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what I will be working on, is good-old-Windows-Desktop-Application-Programming, which I enjoy.
If you enjoy then go for it. You've already said
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I feel inclined to take up this opportunity
Then go for it.
Though not the latest and greatest technologies like
Fixed that for you :laugh: Edit: I meant to say, I did something very similar 4 years ago. Had sort of retired, then decided to go back to work largely for the challenges (which I enjoy). Not enough challenges just answering QA here on CP :laugh:
Yes, I'll go for it.
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I am a 55 year old retired person, having retired from active service in 2018, having worked as a Windows Developer (including WPF) and a Scrum Master / Project Manager. After that, worked a little with Web technologies, knowing nothing more than a basic JavaScript, as you can see from some of my latest articles. Now, I have got a work-from-home part-time opportunity in working on (hands-on) an imaging and graphing application which uses WPF, and MVVM. Though I am not actively on the job market, I feel inclined to take up this opportunity. Though not the latest and greatest technologies like React, Angular, Kotlin, Android, iOS, etc., what I will be working on, is good-old-Windows-Desktop-Application-Programming, which I enjoy. If you were in my shoes, would you endeavour into getting into this assignment?
forget Angular, this is crap. Enjoy WPF and MVVM, very enjoyable and powerful :) (though, admittedly, easy to get wrong too)
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forget Angular, this is crap. Enjoy WPF and MVVM, very enjoyable and powerful :) (though, admittedly, easy to get wrong too)
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Super Lloyd wrote:
Angular, this is crap
Crap, but hot, and money-filled, looks like.
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forget Angular, this is crap. Enjoy WPF and MVVM, very enjoyable and powerful :) (though, admittedly, easy to get wrong too)
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Super Lloyd wrote:
Enjoy WPF and MVVM, very enjoyable and powerful :) (though, admittedly, easy to get wrong too)
I can sing a song about that X| Luckily I found out my error soon enough and could redirect it. Unluckily, I am not working in the field anymore so I will forget everything again :(
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I am a 55 year old retired person, having retired from active service in 2018, having worked as a Windows Developer (including WPF) and a Scrum Master / Project Manager. After that, worked a little with Web technologies, knowing nothing more than a basic JavaScript, as you can see from some of my latest articles. Now, I have got a work-from-home part-time opportunity in working on (hands-on) an imaging and graphing application which uses WPF, and MVVM. Though I am not actively on the job market, I feel inclined to take up this opportunity. Though not the latest and greatest technologies like React, Angular, Kotlin, Android, iOS, etc., what I will be working on, is good-old-Windows-Desktop-Application-Programming, which I enjoy. If you were in my shoes, would you endeavour into getting into this assignment?
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Super Lloyd wrote:
Enjoy WPF and MVVM, very enjoyable and powerful :) (though, admittedly, easy to get wrong too)
I can sing a song about that X| Luckily I found out my error soon enough and could redirect it. Unluckily, I am not working in the field anymore so I will forget everything again :(
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
damn! good luck :)
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I am a 55 year old retired person, having retired from active service in 2018, having worked as a Windows Developer (including WPF) and a Scrum Master / Project Manager. After that, worked a little with Web technologies, knowing nothing more than a basic JavaScript, as you can see from some of my latest articles. Now, I have got a work-from-home part-time opportunity in working on (hands-on) an imaging and graphing application which uses WPF, and MVVM. Though I am not actively on the job market, I feel inclined to take up this opportunity. Though not the latest and greatest technologies like React, Angular, Kotlin, Android, iOS, etc., what I will be working on, is good-old-Windows-Desktop-Application-Programming, which I enjoy. If you were in my shoes, would you endeavour into getting into this assignment?
As others have said, if it speaks to you, go for it.
Amarnath S wrote:
which uses WPF, and MVVM
Personally, I would never, and will never, touch WPF. ;) WPF is, imho, one of those widow-makers of programming. :laugh:
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I am a 55 year old retired person, having retired from active service in 2018, having worked as a Windows Developer (including WPF) and a Scrum Master / Project Manager. After that, worked a little with Web technologies, knowing nothing more than a basic JavaScript, as you can see from some of my latest articles. Now, I have got a work-from-home part-time opportunity in working on (hands-on) an imaging and graphing application which uses WPF, and MVVM. Though I am not actively on the job market, I feel inclined to take up this opportunity. Though not the latest and greatest technologies like React, Angular, Kotlin, Android, iOS, etc., what I will be working on, is good-old-Windows-Desktop-Application-Programming, which I enjoy. If you were in my shoes, would you endeavour into getting into this assignment?
Don't you know WPF stands for: Woeful Pathetic Frivolity :-\
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I am a 55 year old retired person, having retired from active service in 2018, having worked as a Windows Developer (including WPF) and a Scrum Master / Project Manager. After that, worked a little with Web technologies, knowing nothing more than a basic JavaScript, as you can see from some of my latest articles. Now, I have got a work-from-home part-time opportunity in working on (hands-on) an imaging and graphing application which uses WPF, and MVVM. Though I am not actively on the job market, I feel inclined to take up this opportunity. Though not the latest and greatest technologies like React, Angular, Kotlin, Android, iOS, etc., what I will be working on, is good-old-Windows-Desktop-Application-Programming, which I enjoy. If you were in my shoes, would you endeavour into getting into this assignment?
Hm. Without a full-time daily job, working on something I enjoy from home would be an easy choice: do it! As for not-latest-and-greates-tech, my personal (as in "grounds I work off when on my job") opinion is who cares. There's a lot of fads going on in the IT space. The new stuff may be new but that's about it, the new stuff may be even good, but who's to say the old stuff isn't or the new stuff is better than the old? My next big GUI project will be made with Xamarin.Forms (to reach Windows & Android from the same code base, Xamarin.Forms could do iOS as well, but with Apple's paranoid restrictions, the use case can't be served under iOS which, by the way, isn't my job to tell customers), but there's no reason not to stick with "classical" WPF if it gets the job done. Hell, I'm still doing a lot with Windows Forms. Something being old, stable & mature isn't a reason to switch away from it.
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I am a 55 year old retired person, having retired from active service in 2018, having worked as a Windows Developer (including WPF) and a Scrum Master / Project Manager. After that, worked a little with Web technologies, knowing nothing more than a basic JavaScript, as you can see from some of my latest articles. Now, I have got a work-from-home part-time opportunity in working on (hands-on) an imaging and graphing application which uses WPF, and MVVM. Though I am not actively on the job market, I feel inclined to take up this opportunity. Though not the latest and greatest technologies like React, Angular, Kotlin, Android, iOS, etc., what I will be working on, is good-old-Windows-Desktop-Application-Programming, which I enjoy. If you were in my shoes, would you endeavour into getting into this assignment?
why not? take the job, especially if you like it.
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I am a 55 year old retired person, having retired from active service in 2018, having worked as a Windows Developer (including WPF) and a Scrum Master / Project Manager. After that, worked a little with Web technologies, knowing nothing more than a basic JavaScript, as you can see from some of my latest articles. Now, I have got a work-from-home part-time opportunity in working on (hands-on) an imaging and graphing application which uses WPF, and MVVM. Though I am not actively on the job market, I feel inclined to take up this opportunity. Though not the latest and greatest technologies like React, Angular, Kotlin, Android, iOS, etc., what I will be working on, is good-old-Windows-Desktop-Application-Programming, which I enjoy. If you were in my shoes, would you endeavour into getting into this assignment?
It looks like a good fit with the only caution I can think of is the support aspect and how it could suck you in somewhat against your will. Like, if you make the app, great, but then are you going to be supporting it? If you are, is that going to fit with your "retired life"? This is an aspect where one can easily trick yourself into thinking "it won't be that much of an issue" but then find that oh, I can't go on a vacation or step away from things for a while to focus on something else, or if I do my vacation might be wrecked because of a support issue you feel you need to work on that rears its ugly head.
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I am a 55 year old retired person, having retired from active service in 2018, having worked as a Windows Developer (including WPF) and a Scrum Master / Project Manager. After that, worked a little with Web technologies, knowing nothing more than a basic JavaScript, as you can see from some of my latest articles. Now, I have got a work-from-home part-time opportunity in working on (hands-on) an imaging and graphing application which uses WPF, and MVVM. Though I am not actively on the job market, I feel inclined to take up this opportunity. Though not the latest and greatest technologies like React, Angular, Kotlin, Android, iOS, etc., what I will be working on, is good-old-Windows-Desktop-Application-Programming, which I enjoy. If you were in my shoes, would you endeavour into getting into this assignment?
I am 64 and have done everything from embedded to CV and ML. I would not mind finding a part time WPF gig when I retire. If you have the time and the inclination, I would say go for it. You have nothing to lose. Doug
