[Namari]

Einstein once said "Once you stop learning, you start dying". I feel like in IT it's the case for most what people are thinking. In my case I have been switching tech because I felt I wasn't learning anything new or simply because it's was dying. I feel like these guys like him are probably too confortable in their confort zone or too lazy to learn anything new (the less you do the less you've got motivation + you can't teach old dog new tricks).

[dlisboa]

To be fair you can learn outside your job. I wouldn't call him lazy just because he stuck with a company for a long time. Most jobs will only require a small percentage of a programmers' knowledge, so people supply their urges with outside endeavors. Hence reading books, doing Open Source, side projects, etc.

Lots of significant inventions in computer science began as a side project only the creator cared for initially and had to borrow his own time to do it.