Plus fascinating to look back on this thread. I was 45 when I kicked it off 11 years ago; since then I got my name on my first patent, my R&D team won a major innovation award, I got a research Master's whilst working full time managing a huge restructuring, and last year changed to an almost 100% different engineering role. And no doubt lots of other stuff that just seemd to be "well it's what you do".
And on the point that started it off: "should you go into management at 30 since you won't be able to do engineering any more", my current job has moved me out of management and back into engineering - it's wonderful!
My feeling now is that you are only too old if you've got to a state where you think you know what you're doing and don't need to learn anything new. And I've met some 20 year old's like that
Plus fascinating to look back on this thread. I was 45 when I kicked it off 11 years ago; since then I got my name on my first patent, my R&D team won a major innovation award, I got a research Master's whilst working full time managing a huge restructuring, and last year changed to an almost 100% different engineering role. And no doubt lots of other stuff that just seemd to be "well it's what you do".
And on the point that started it off: "should you go into management at 30 since you won't be able to do engineering any more", my current job has moved me out of management and back into engineering - it's wonderful!
My feeling now is that you are only too old if you've got to a state where you think you know what you're doing and don't need to learn anything new. And I've met some 20 year old's like that
