Robert Fabian

I've reached the stage in life that has been called Late Adulthood (55 to 75). This means that I have younger colleagues who have taken early retirement, and older colleagues who are still working. A further complication is the fact that I'm in a field where age doesn't command respect. Indeed, a number of people believe that there is active age discrimination in IT.

Statistics Canada recently reported that roughly 600,000 Canadians were employed in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector in 2001.

For years it seemed as if "standard industry practices" had no place in the IT field.

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