The tech industry is like sports or pop music: a young person's game
So is there an age discrimination problem in IT? Perhaps -- in the same way there's an age discrimination problem in professional sports, journalism, and the arts. At some point in those career arcs, the assets that made workers such hot properties -- youth, the ability to devote lots of time to their vocation, comparative inexperience -- diminish. And the marginal utility of what's left -- experience -- is not as strongly valued.
In other words, all you IT veterans are still big. It's the jobs that got small.
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This article, "The painful truth about age discrimination in tech," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest develoments in tech careers and get practical career advice from Bob Lewis' Advice blog at InfoWorld.com.