Title: Hello,<p>I&#x27;m a late 30&#x27;s devops &#x2F; SRE guy who previously worked as a sysadmin in financial services. Suddenly, the jobs in my area seem to ask for only 5 years of experience of Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker and CICD, my salary demands are too high and I&#x27;m being interviewed by people in their 20&#x27;s who think I&#x27;m an idiot. I&#x27;m struggling with the whole process I have several paths and I was hoping you could pick what YOU would do:<p>A) Continue learning more Python - I&#x27;m good but I don&#x27;t know the math and sorting questions I&#x27;m getting asked. Continue with AWS. Take a lower-paying job with folks 15 years younger just so I can pick up Docker, Kubernetes, etc. That&#x27;s a 30-40K pay decrease in New York.<p>Downside:   I have grey hair and I think I&#x27;m competing with cheaper people.<p>B) Go independent contractor. I have done this but I am very bad with marketing myself, and my network isn&#x27;t wide enough to score jobs, so I&#x27;m stuck with recruiters. I like this the most but I&#x27;m also struggling.<p>Downside: Everything else is perfect, but my marketing skills are 0 after all these years.<p>C) Go management. I&#x27;ve already been a manager on the infra side. I shied away in future roles thinking I preferred hands-on (even though I got accolades as a people person and a well-organized improver of infrastructure).<p>Downside:  Narrow job listings to choose from, also weak at marketing.<p>What would you do and why?
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