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Tech Or Management Beyond Age 39? 592

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @11:46PM from the when-you-come-to-a-fork-in-the-road-take-it dept.

relliker writes "So here I am at age 39 with two contractual possibilities, for practically the same pay. With one, I continue being a techie for the foreseeable future — always having to keep myself up-to-date on everything tech and re-inventing myself with each Web.x release to stay on top. With the other, I'm being offered a chance to get into management, something I also enjoy doing and am seriously considering for the rest of my working life. The issue here is the age of my grey matter. Will I still be employable in tech at this age and beyond? Or should I relinquish the struggle to keep up with progress and take the comfy 'old man' management route so that I can stay employable even in my twilight years? What would Slashdot veterans advise at this age?"

Submission + - X-Box Repairs cost MS $1Bn

Submitted by x-guru on Thursday July 05, 2007 @09:46PM

x-guru writes: According to this CNN-Money article, excessive X-Box hardware failures are to blame for Microsoft taking a charge in the amount of $1 Billion. They say they have "investigated the sources of hardware failures indicated by three red flashing lights on the console and had identified 'a number of factors' that can cause such failures". Microsoft will extend the X-Box warranty to three years and they will reimburse customers who already paid for repairs.

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