Too old to code

I've been reading a few articles about age and coding and how older people are being passed over jobs for younger people, one article said...

Young people are more likely to know what's happening in recent tech news

How dare they! This got me thinking how or why 'older' people get this way, if indeed they do, if I'm different, and how do you stay employable?

My music taste has (apparently) stagnated... mostly, I still dabble in a few new bands and tracks here and there but largely (and against my younger self wishes) I've got my era and it was clearly far better than all the rubbish that's in the charts today!

Am I the same with coding?

I grew up with Sinclair BASIC, learnt assembly, ventured into pascal and c and c++, took a few curves with other interesting and exciting languages. My earliest "proper job" coding was SQL and variations of that (oracle, informix) and Progress 4GL, from there I moved into doing a vb.net PDA app and then onto my next vb.net job with windows forms and finally asp.net.

I could see over the time with vb.net / winforms that it was dying and I should be moving to C# and MVC. I knew I needed to fire up my computer every night and learn the new skills so my next job would be C# and MVC development.

Change or Die.

I've concluded that actually, as a basic level, I like fixing stuff, continual improvement, and my roots in databases have always been strong in driving this.

To this end I have directed my attention to SQL and improving myself there and starting my journey into DBA territory. Firming up on Business Intelligence and related technology, and maybe even get some qualifications in it. This feels like a natural progression of my skills, and bigger picture stuff like management, system design, business analysis all sits in the redirection quite comfortably.

So am I too old to code? No... only when I stop wanting to learn, stop being comfortable with change, stop wanting to seek new worlds and new challenges... To boldly go where n.... anyway... I'm definitely not too old to code!