My goal is to be the latter but I've worked with plenty of people who made it a goal to be the former.
I don't think it's necessarily irrational.
If you're self aware enough to know that you're on the wrong side of the programmer bell curve, you're counting down the days until retirement, if you're living in a market with relatively few tech jobs - this makes sense.
I don't think it's necessarily irrational.
If you're self aware enough to know that you're on the wrong side of the programmer bell curve, you're counting down the days until retirement, if you're living in a market with relatively few tech jobs - this makes sense.