"It's also a young person's game. Once you have a family, not sure you can make those trade offs and feel good about it. "

Sorry - but I take exception to this - the mythology that somehow IT belongs to the under 30's is just plain wrong.

During my career I've gone from Cobol programmer to mainframe dba to sql dba , still managing to be a family man despite often putting in some pretty daft hours - still do and I'm more than capable of "keeping up" with the "young" - its bad enough when you have to put with this attitude from recruiters but on this blog people should know better - apologies for the rant