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In general, look for niches where there are a proportionate (or better) concentration of grey-hairs. Not FAANGs or places like them (duh).

There's a lot to be said for being good at cleaning up messes. Lots of people design crappy systems and write crappy code (and do). Being able to fix stuff like that with minimal downtime is worthwhile, and most youngsters would rather not go there.



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