50年代黄岩师专

• Over the weekend, I built who got their first tech job in their 30s, 40s, and beyond.

  上周末，我人员在30多岁，40多岁及以后的工作中获得了第一份技术工作。

• We’re sharing stories using the hashtag .

  我们正在使用标签分享故事。

• So if you started your software development career later in life, .

  因此，如果您在以后的生活中开始了软件开发事业，请加入 。

这就是为什么我做了所有这些 (Here’s why I did all this)

Every day, I get emails from aspiring developers around the world who ask the same basic question:

每天，我都会收到来自全球有抱负的开发人员的电子邮件，他们提出了相同的基本问题：

“I’m ____ years old. Am I too old to get hired as a developer?”

我今年____岁。 我年纪太大了，无法被聘为开发人员？”

This is one of the most commonly asked questions in the entire field of software development.

这是整个软件开发领域中最常见的问题之一。

To give you an idea of how many aspiring developers are worried about their age, I looked for variants of this question on Quora.

为了让您了解有多少有抱负的开发人员担心他们的年龄，我在Quora上寻找了此问题的变体。

And sure enough, I found people of all ages who are worried that they’re “too old” to learn to code and get hired as a developer:

可以肯定的是，我发现各个年龄段的人都在担心自己“太老了”，无法学习编码并被聘为开发人员：

So what do you tell someone who’s panicking about whether it’s “too late” for them? Most people just say some variation of the old Walt Disney quote: “If you can dream it you can do it!”

那么，对于那些对他们是否为时已晚的人感到恐慌的事情，您如何告诉他们呢？ 多数人只是对沃尔特·迪斯尼(Walt Disney)的一句话进行了一些修改：“如果您可以梦想成真，那么您可以做到！”

And sure, I agree with that sentiment.

当然，我同意这一观点。

I spent my 20s working as a teacher. I didn’t learn to code until I was 30.

我花了20多岁当老师。 我直到30岁才学会编码。

Before that, I couldn’t write basic JavaScript. I couldn’t write a SQL query. I couldn’t install Linux. Heck, I couldn’t even set up my WiFi router without my wife’s help.

在此之前，我无法编写基本JavaScript。 我无法编写SQL查询。 我无法安装Linux。 哎呀，没有我妻子的帮助，我什至无法设置我的WiFi路由器。

I got my first software developer job at age 31.

我在31岁时获得了第一份软件开发人员的工作。

So of course I believe that age is just a number. And that anyone who puts in the effort can learn to code well enough to get hired.

因此，我当然相信年龄只是一个数字。 这样，任何努力的人都可以学习足够好的代码以被录用。

But how could I convince all these people who were asking this same question every day? Because saying “don’t stop believing” wasn’t working.

但是我怎么能说服所有这些每天都在问同样问题的人呢？ 因为说“不要停止相信”是行不通的。

我收集了证据，以便说服人们放松自己的年龄 (I gathered evidence so I could convince people to chill out about their age)

I knew several people who were much older than me when they got their first developer job.

我认识了几位比我大得多的人，他们刚开始从事开发工作。

For example, one of my friends was a high school French teacher in her 50s. After taking some , she got a job as a software engineer at Apple.

例如，我的一位朋友是50多岁的一名中学法语老师。 在参加了一些 ，她在Apple担任了软件工程师的工作。

So I knew it was possible.

所以我知道有可能。

But my handful of anecdotes wasn’t enough to convince people to stop worrying about their age. They were watching the Hollywood movies where people under 30 are computer geniuses and all the people over 30 were clueless about technology.

但是我的轶事还不足以说服人们停止担心自己的年龄。 他们正在看好莱坞电影，其中30岁以下的人都是计算机天才，而30岁以上的所有人都对技术一无所知。

So one Friday night, after trying to soothe an aspiring developer’s anxieties for the thousandth time, I reconsidered my approach.

因此，在一个星期五晚上，在尝试缓解开发人员千百倍的焦虑之后，我重新考虑了自己的方法。

I thought: “Maybe I can find a list of developers who got their first job in their 30s, 40s, and beyond. Then I can use that to convince people to stop worrying about their age so much.”

我想：“也许我可以找到一份清单，列出了30多岁，40多岁及以后的第一份工作的开发人员。 然后，我可以用它说服人们不再担心年龄。”

There were lists of older developers — many of whom had decades of coding experience.

列出了一些较老的开发人员-其中许多人具有数十年的编码经验。

But I couldn’t find any lists of people who had gotten their first developer job later in life.

但是我找不到任何后来生活中获得第一份开发人员工作的人的清单。

So I tweeted.

所以我发了推文。

事实证明，许多开发人员在30、40和50年代就获得了第一份技术工作。 (It turns out a LOT of developers got their first tech job in their 30s, 40s, and 50s.)

Here are some stories from a few developers who responded:

以下是一些响应的开发人员的故事：

我列出了300位30岁以下的开发人员 (I built a list of 300 developers who started after 30)

To get an idea of just how common it is for people to transition into software development in their 30s, 40s, and beyond, I created .

为了弄清楚人们在30多岁，40多岁及以后过渡到软件开发的普遍性，我创建了 。

I’m going to continue to expand this list as more people approach me with their stories. So if you are a developer who got your first job after the age of 30, and use the hashtag and I’ll add you to the list.

随着越来越多的人向我讲述他们的故事，我将继续扩展此列表。 因此，如果您是30岁之后才找到第一份工作的开发人员，请并使用标签，然后将您添加到列表中。

And if you’re learning to code later in life, don’t get discouraged. Know that this is quite common. And know that you’re in good company.

而且，如果您以后会学习编码，请不要气don。 知道这很普遍。 并且知道你在好公司中。

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