Why do traditional professions such as doctors, lawyers and teachers become more popular as they get older? What are the characteristics of these occupations?

I saw an interesting question in Zhihu these two days: Why do traditional professions such as doctors, lawyers and teachers become more and more popular as they get older? Not surprisingly, this question has a high number of views, and the following answer is also controversial. Then, I saw the answer under the question, and mentioned why programmers are not more popular as they get older. As a person who has been engaged in the front-end development industry for many years, Xiao Zhi expressed some humble opinions on this topic today.

Because most of these traditional occupations have a slow improvement in their professional skills, they can fully enjoy the positive bonus of time and accumulate experience in work again and again, and these experiences can be effectively reused for a long time, which is of great help to future work. The longer you work, the more experience you have accumulated, and there won't be too many new problems in your work, and you will be more comfortable in handling things at work. This is why these traditional occupations become more and more popular with age.

Then why don't the front-end development of these computer industries become more and more popular with the growth of age? In the Internet era with the rapid development of information technology, compared with other industries, the speed of upgrading the computer industry is changing with each passing day. If a programmer does not have the ability to constantly learn new technologies and accept new things, then the increase of working age is actually of little significance to programmers.

Take front-end development as an example. If a front-end development engineer has been engaged in the front-end industry for many years and still stands still, unwilling to accept or not learning new technologies, and with the update of the Internet era, there are more and more new things, then he will gradually be eliminated by the industry. On the contrary, if a young man who has just been engaged in the front-end development industry for a long time has strong acceptance and learning ability and can learn this technology as soon as possible after the emergence of new technology in the industry, then his ability and value can make him very popular in the front-end development industry. Therefore, the ability to accept and learn is an essential ability for practitioners in the computer industry, and it is also the advantage of young programmers.