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I just calculated the average age for my team and it turns out we are old. We have an average age of 54 which seems high in the grand scheme of things.
We are still holding our own very well though. so I was just wondering if anyone else had an older team and how they are handling grey beardedness.
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We have four people in their 50s on the team, but the average age is brought down by a few young'uns in their 40s, 30s, and even two 20s.
As for how we manage, youth and enthusiasm will never be a match for age and experience. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: youth and enthusiasm will never be a match for age and experience
Or at least experience.
Age usually comes with it, but there are exceptions.
Especially in the other direction.
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Or at least experience.
Yes.
Experience: recognizing a mistake the second time you make it.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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yeah, need to upvote that
Charlie Gilley
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“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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The average age for my team is 62.
But then, there is only me ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Statistically speaking, you are the youngest in your team then.
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Technically yes - and also that I have no-one else to blame if we run out of coffee ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Quote: no-one else to blame if we run out of coffee
Here in Florida I blame the lawyers. In the USA they are to blame for all evils!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cp-Coder wrote: lawyers. In the USA they are to blame for all evils!
Yeah - until you need one.
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Obviously your team is a spring chicken! My team (Yes - only me) is approaching 78. 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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That's only 41 in Mars years!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Quote: That's only 41 in Mars years!
Well blow me down! Elon: Sign me up for the first trip to Mars!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Ditto on both counts (though not for much longer)
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67 and only me.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I see your 62 and raise you to 68
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Right there with you but average of my team is 71.
It's always worse than it seems.
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We range from 56 to 22... Majority over 40...
The youngsters regularly amazed by the resourcefulness of the old folks... (and we do not tell them that this is all hurting experience of the past years )
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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My team: 65, 64, 59 (me), 57, 45-ish, and 23. #65 is retiring in June, and #23 just started. Collectively, we have over 100 man-years experience in our product line.
My boss, who just took over from the previous boss who retired, is busily writing job req's to fill positions.
Software Zen: delete this;
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(59 + 50 + 45 + 22) / 4 = 44
But splitting the difference between the median values 'feels' more representative:
(50 + 45) /2 = 47.5
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Being a lone wolf it is much easier to work out the average age of my team, and is it greater than yours.
Quote: ....and how they are handling grey beardedness.
Proudly.
When it turned white I grew my beard longer.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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i'm a self employed team of one, 60yo this year, been programming for a living for 40+years and feel i'm writing some of the best code of my life, ive learned more new languages and technologies (to me) over the last 2 years including xamarin, python, blazor, net core, & unity to name a few. The only slightly negative i'm finding is that i need to refer back more and more to projects for syntax and snippets as i just can't keep it all in my head anymore, there's just too much of it, but it's no biggie really, but i still look back fondly on the days when the word PC's hadnt been invented, with MS-DOS and character based systems ruling the landscape, when a programmer could actually learn almost everything they needed. I can't remember the words geek or nerd existing then, you were a 'computer wizard' and people assumed you had a brain like a planet as the word 'computer' struck fear into so many heart's - ahhh nostalgia aint what it used to be, but i'm rambling on like some kind of old man...
GL
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I don't have exact ages, but onshore, we have 65, 58, 48 for devs. Our single QA is 35. Offshore, everyone is in their 20's or 30's. Everyone is just as resourceful as everyone else. However, the oldest is the only one that knows COBOL, which we use. Good thing we are retiring the program in the next few years.
FYI: Our offshore personnel are not contractors, but rather just employees in another country.
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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My one-man team averages 80 years. But that's just because I outlived most of the companies I worked for.
All programming languages suck. It's just that some of them were designed that way.
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4 people report to me and the average age of all 5 of us is 57.
64,63,63,60,37
My boss (36) and I discuss legacy planning all the time as any of the 4 can retire at any time. I'm one of the 63s, plan to retire 12/2025 but have a two week vacation coming up which will make me consider retiring soon.
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