Phil, My grandfather on my father's side started a second family at 61 and lived to be 90. My father stared his family in his 30's. Family tradition has is that my grandfather was a blacksmith who became a car mechanic. I'm not sure how accurate the family story is but it is a good story. One has to adapt in our profession as my grandfather did in his.
Programmer's should get out of the technical end of thing by the time the are 30 if they want to follow the path the statistics say the more successful of us follow. Paul Hanrahan
