I recently hit thirty years of professional software development, in companies large small, profit and non profit, proprietary and FOSS, I have led teams of forty, sat in a corner as the only developer and one thing I know in my bones - I love making software and money just means I get to code what I want instead of what The Man wants.

In fact I already have my retirement planned - a small near flat in Argostolli, a walk down to the coffee bars on the harbour and a few hours adding code and documentation to a foss project of my choice before heading to the beach with grandkids.

Now affording retirement might be interesting but not having coding in it will be like not having reading and writing