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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DH has been with the same job for 20 years.  It’s his first job coming out of college.  I’ve been trying to push him to switch to a different company for more than a decade and he sporadically applies to a few jobs once in a blue moon but nothing has come out of it.  His current company has switched hands several times and he has not gotten a raise in 7 years.  Benefits are subpar with no 401k matching.  His field is computer programming so should be in demand yet somehow he’s ok working 8+ hours being severely underpaid for his field.  I can’t understand why I need to push him to leave at all!! Is anyone or know anyone who’s in this type of situation?  [/quote]

Your DH is a 40 year old programmer. He should be happy he has a job still. Ageism is vile in tech, after 30 you better move in to business development or management or you are canned. Many programmers are NOT GOOD at BD and manage (I mean they are computer geeks, I’m one too). So don’t look a gift horse in a mouth. If he has stuck this long, he is likely a known quantity. Is he at a govt contractor?[/quote]

I work at a Bay Area tech company, and this is just not true at my company.  There's even a [/b]whole different promotion track[b] for genius programmers and architects and what-have-you [/b]that maintains their individual contributor status as they get older, more experienced, and even more valuable.[/quote][b][b]

Hmm so a SEPARATE BUT EQUAL promotion track for OLD geniuses. So they already categorize you different simply on account of your age, and you are only promoted if you are fing genius. So the average old programmer like OP DH goes where? I can guess…[/quote]

Well compared to the DC area employers, who only promote people managers, I am not complaining about others promoting old geniuses. On a second note, 40 is probably not going to fit in at twitter, but Bay Area has a LOT of small companies, plus VC/PE that back them up, where SOME team will gear toward older members. I know because I am joining a PE team of 10, most of them graduated colleague in the 80s.[/quote]

Well yeah, VC and PE are old people. It’s usually founders who cashed out or old executives.  That’s the rub of tech, if you didn’t make $10M by 30 you don’t have “it”/aren’t a genius so big-bye.

OP DH is in tech, is a staff line employee at 40+.  No VC is hiring him, he’s likely not a genius, so all this edge cases don’t apply.

Working at a small startup could be an option, I’ve seen them hire “grown-ups” to make the company seem more legit to investors but generally the pay is crummy and the risk of it failing is crazy high, and you likely won’t see much IPO/SPAC upside unless you are C-suite.

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Bay area is indeed competitive. My friend (early 40s) only know a programming language from the 70s, who managed to land a job with a grocery chain in MD for a salary between OP's husband and 200k. So there are places for everyone, just need to go get it. [/quote]

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