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Comment on Ask HN: Where do older workers go that don't become managers or specialists?parent

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Good point, but I'm seeing this phenomena in ALL jobs at these companies - and both have been around for over 30 years. There just aren't alot of older people around - where did they GO?

That's a good question... but where are all the 50-60 year old firemen? Electrical engineering paid pretty good back in the day... so I can assume that if they managed their money wisely, they are sitting on a boat on some lake in Wisconsin.

I'm working on a hardware project right now and the guy that's doing the board design is 57 and retired. I can only call him between tuesday and thursday and he has an aol.com email address, but he knows what he's doing... so who knows...

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