How Old is Too Old?

NewtonEatPalm! asks: "I started college back when I was too young to carefully weigh options about my future. I entered a prominent art school at age 17, coasted through, and was spit out at age 22 with a film degree that I don't really want nor do I feel qualified to use as the basis for a career. Three years on, I'm still working at my mundane college job, though one thing has never changed in all this time- my love of and devotion to technology, keeping up with hardware news and the intricacies of powerful software through daily reading of sites like Slashdot and lots of home-brew system building and amateur web development. I've decided that I'd like to pursue a second degree in Software Engineering at one of the major Cal State U's, but that would place me in the tech job market at nearly 30. My question is, how old is too old? Are severe changes in career direction in this sector commonplace/successful? Or have I truly already let my best chance for entry pass me by?"

Sure, remind me of my birthday...

[Psykechan]

I just turned 33 today. Way to remind me that I am old. :P

Re:Sure, remind me of my birthday...

[vistic]

happy birthday...

what?

oh... i said... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, OLD MAN!!!

did you hear me THAT time??

sometimes i forget to speak into the horn. :-)

Re:Thinking Experience

[Anonymous Coward]

And yet some of the best work has been produced by men and women well past 30.

Indeed. Pamela Anderson was thirty-five years old when she highlighted Playboy's Sexy 100 special issue, back in 2003.

Verily

[iridium_ionizer]

"I just turned 33 today. Way to remind me that I am old. :P"

Jesus died when he was 33... I'm just saying.

Re:"How old is too old?"

[gbobeck]

Well, Pastafarian Heaven *does* have a beer volcano and a stripper factory. That is pretty damn close to College in my book.

Re:Thinking Experience

[fbjon]

..and millions of neurons and organs around the world hardened and matured.

Re:You want advice?

[kfg]

Carpe Momento

Yeah, I had those at my Jewish grandmother's house all the time, although she changed the word so we wouldn't know we were just eating carp.

Guy at the tackle shop looked at me funny when I asked what sort of lure I needed for gelfilte fish too. Damn Bubby.

KFG

Re:Hmmm

[cerberusss]

Coding is not all hot tubs full of babes

Well, that depends on the industry you're coding for, doesn't it? :)

Yes, You are too Old!

[i_am_the_r00t]

you need to give up and make way for the fresh young folks. Face it, you are undereducated, incompetent, incapable of making a decent decision. Why would anyone want to hire you!?. You should give blood and perhaps sell your organs on Ebay. You are a few short years away from being some young, capable citizen's Soylent Green.

Come on! you need to change your belief about what it means to be old (and useful)

"Old" is not measured in *years on the planet*
Old is measured in your personal belief of your capability to contribute.