Kareem, thanks for going to my blog. I am still pretty obscure. Most of my work in the last 10 years has been either putting out fires or implementing something that requires a wide range of technologies, old and new. I haven’t worked much in a team environment recently. I think I am usually paid on the higher end but once the situation is in control I get cut. I have been guilty of sitting back and letting work come to me. In the earlier days I was getting the chance to create new innovative applications, but that is just not happening now. I am hoping to break out of that cycle and I’m trying to use blogging as my vehicle. The interesting thing is that I have always enjoyed mentoring young energetic newcomers. I am thinking of them when I develop my posts. Jim Freer http://freerpad.blogspot.com/

As age has increased I seem to have less control over career choices. Some of that is simply due to the evolutionary changes in the job of programming. However a lot is due to the perception of an older person and the reluctance of management to hire someone with many more years of experience than themselves. I am a programmer, have been for more than 40 years, and hopefully will be able to write code up to the day I die. Unfortunately, despite my skill, I find it very difficult to make a living as a programmer. http://freerpad.blogspot.com/[^] http://anamericanprogrammer.blogspot.com/[^] Jim Freer