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[quote=Anonymous]I have a software engineering degree and am currently leading a 8 - 12 person team that involves onsite and offsite staff.  I've basically built this team from the ground up (including hiring and managing the majority of them) and have been wanting to jump to the next thing for a while and am finally ready for it (great team, horrible unsupportive management).  I have a good feel for project management as well (part of my role was also securing funding by going to sponsors, finding new internal use cases, making sure the project remained relevant re. business the organization's business case, etc.).  Being that age discrimination is a concern in tech (particularly software) I want to figure out how do I transition to my next phase.  I'm considering transitioning to a cyber business area because that seems to be more current and more applicable to just the federal domain.  Either that or medical.  Once I switch (assuming it is internal to where I work) I suppose I need to start climbing the ladder again.  I guess my general question is 1.) are there general guidelines to stay marketable and 2.) are their any domains that are more transferable commercially than others?  I work for large UARC so we have a very broad technology base so I'd like to take advantage of that.  I'd consider moving to a different company or purely commercial but my husband is working for a startup so I'm trying to focus on more stable or long term options for right  now.

TIA.

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