In message , at 16:12:45 on Wed, 11 Jan
2017, tim... remarked:
An industry that can "afford" to "throw way" people who are less than
50% through their useful career cannot be short of suitable workers.

I agree that there's ageism, but some of that is justified if you want
fresh minds to address new problems.

That works in a small percentage of cases. However what usually happens is
the "fresh minds" make the same old mistakes of previous generations
and just
end up re-inventing the wheel. Often poorly.

I'm not sure how that would apply to something like Blockchain. No
wheel to re-invent, there.

and how many "engineering" IT project use that

You don't think building an e-commerce platform is IT? Uber would be
disappointed (they call themselves a tech firm).

I have never even heard of it

I bet myself you'd say that.

(and having Googled it, I can see why)

--
Roland Perry