Earnings Ceiling for Tech Professionals over 40
No this is not ageism. After a certain point, if you are an individual contributor, your value is not worth more than someone with less experience.<p>A developer with 10 years of varied experience can usually do just as well as someone with 20 years of experience. I also believe that the idea of the 10x <i>developer</i> while not a myth, is so rare it’s not worth trying to find for most companies.<p>I speak as someone in my mid 40s who has been at this professionally for 20+ years [1].<p>I’m debating whether I want to take the next step of consulting or just stay in development. I see my salary hitting a ceiling in the next two or three years and I think I am okay with that.<p>[1] well for all intents and purposes maybe 12 years. I stagnated for a few years and became an “expert beginner”.