This is a good thread and I enjoyed reading post from all with different experience level. While not from the IT background, I always wondered what would people in this field do after 10-15 years of experience in this field. Technology in this seems to be changing very quickly and new graduates with new ideas are joining every year in this field. How are those who graduated 10-15 years ago are keeping them relevant in this field with young graduates. This field seems different compared to others where experience counts a lot in other field. In this field, new technology and new ideas seems to dominate the experiences. Based on whatever I have read on news from Silicon Valley, age of most of these tech companies employees are between 20-40 and above 40 are not considered good hire as they lack new ideas. May be little off topic, but would love to hear from those who have 10-15 years of experience in this field and how they are doing.