Comment Re:Hiring a 50-year old... (Score 2) 317
As a fifty+ year old coder/designer/architect, I just went back to do another startup where I get to write code again and to mentor the rest of the team. The reason to write code is that I want to build something and have it used by customers (preferably paying ones). I can have the biggest impact in a small startup where we want to change the world (or at least a small, profitable, segment of it!)
At 50+, your priorities do change somewhat -- family and kids are more important -- but these all encourage you to work smarter rather than longer. You also gain (through experience) an intuitive feel for what will work, and what will not.