How to overcome midlife career crisis?
How to over come feeling defeated and anxious as I grow older in tech field biased towards younger lot and shiny new tech stacks.
Worked in WITCH companies, no hope of getting into product based at 11 yrs exp.
I am no way extraordinary technologically wise nor got chance to work on complex projects just standard Crud apps on different tech stacks like Asp.net and SAP Fiori/Hana.
I shudder to think of being jobless at 50 with no job with no pension and max responsibilities on my shoulders at that time .
Can someone provide pointers how to come out of this rut? I would be grateful🙏🏻
To move to product roles/ startup:
- Be optimistic and open-minded
- Go meet folks. Talk to as many people as possible. Most top folks are lonely and have tons of free time. Many even have topmate links where you can book time.
- Go to events, volunteer etc -- not with an intention to switch but genuinely do good karma
All you need is one person willing to take a bet on you. Once you crack unicorn startups and/ or product.. thereafter, cracking is easier. And learning wise, mostly it's on the job training.
But yeah - post 50 joblessness seems inevitable