[itwrangler]

At 55 I can relate. I'm wondering in the tech space whether we happen to be the first generation that has spent our whole professional careers in tech (me electronics first, then computers, then networked systems, then internet systems, with a bit of dev. sprinkled throughout) and thus after 40 years of constant change you (or one) just gets to certain stage? I know I'm done (at least professionally, I've retired), although I still tinker with tech daily but out of pure interest. The last prof. gig I had I spent a lot of time thinking why am I spending so much time re-tooling, re-fixing, re-inventing the wheel? :-)