Where have all the older coders gone, and what are the career prospects for those of us who remain?

I see. Sounds like your spirit was willing but the area was barren for embedded work. Perhaps thats another piece of it, you need to be where the work you want is. If its hw/embedded then N. Cal. Web, SF or SiBeach. Etc. I am in Silicon Valley where HW/firmware are located but more and more these jobs migrate to China/India. Many of our chips are co-designed in India&China and much of the FW is written there also. There might be some handwriting on the wall about the future of the US wrt high paid tech work in this light. esp if you can hire 10 Indian engineers for 1 US engineer, perhaps that ratio is no longer correct though but its > 0.

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