Aging Designers
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- yuekit1
This is an area where I think there's a difference between being a full time employee or contract employee vs. freelancing off-site or having your own business.
In the first situation you'll be submitting your resume to every potential employer showing when you went to college so they'll have a very good idea how old you are. And ageism is a real thing in tech, if not at 40 then certainly when you are 50 or 60 something. Not to say they won't hire older people but there may be a bias against it when it comes to creative positions as opposed to managerial.
OTOH running my own business for the past several years, I've never submitted a resume and I have many long-term clients that I've never met in real life. So age is basically meaningless. That's not the main reason I prefer to work for myself but it's a nice benefit of it.