For those wondering about ageism, job search experience at 54

I’ve wondered about ageism quite a lot over the years. I started 22 years ago at age 32. Over that time, I’ve transitioned from “webmaster” to web developer to backend software engineer. The hardest thing to adapt to, so far, was going from monolithic full-stack “websites” to distributed architecture. Thankfully, I comfortably made it over that hump after a few years with a company that gave me the opportunities to build things and guide me as needed. Moving from language to language has been easy, I’ve worked in Cold Fusion, Perl, PHP, Python and Javascript (front end and Node).The last few times I set out on a job search, I deleted all but the last 7 yoe from my resume, because I was afraid that including all of it was causing my resume to be passed over by ageist recruiters. This time, I decided to keep everything, but I condensed my first 12 yoe into one summarized section to keep it readable and only show relevant skills.I’m 54, 22 y.o.e. and just completed a job search that took all of 3 weeks, and that was during the holidays, a time when supposedly nobody is hiring, and amidst the tech layoffs that left 10’s of thousands of FAANG engineers available to compete with. It is fully remote, so I am also competing with the whole country, not just locally. The new job is a new stack for me, I’m moving from PHP to Node. I had built some projects with it for my freelance work and at my last job, but now it becomes my main stack and not just side projects. I crushed all my interviews, which were at companies that valued experience and did not do any Leetcode style testing. Within that 3 week period, I had my pick of offers and made a 30k salary jump from my last job.So, for older folks who worry, if you love your career, you can keep it as long as you like. As for the younger folks: hang in there, kids, you can look forward to finally kicking ass when you get older. 🙂 But, for the love of god, get the hell off my lawn! via /r/webdev https://ift.tt/aJQT269