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>All sorts of people of all ages are unwilling or unable to update their knowledge of new tech, there is no reason to link this characteristic to someones advanced age.

In 1998 I was in a web development class with a guy, and one time I went by his house and he showed me his little resume site he was working on. It was really nice looking, he had a great sense of design, I could have made it but I couldn't have designed it. But it was all table based, so I showed him CSS and extolled its virtues.

After which he exclaimed furiously "That's the problem with this industry, there's always new things to learn!"

He was just starting out and was already unwilling to update his knowledge of new tech!

I think he's working as a SiteCore admin in Dental association now. I'm pretty sure he has a nice work life balance, so make of that what you will.




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