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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:

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   I have a lot of software developer colleagues who are 20 - 35 years old but none 50+. At what age does a software engineer\\u2019s career end?

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   Hi Dave and Jamison, thanks for the great podcast.

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   I recently started a new position on a small remote team.

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   The co-founders are increasingly dismayed by my lack of Slack-question-asking, although I have reassured them that I\\u2019m not too shy and I will ask when I\\u2019m stuck. I have daily one-on-one meetings with one co-founder, where I do ask questions about the code base, story requirements, potential side effects of my solutions etc. It\\u2019s an open-source project with comprehensive and Googable developer docs, so between those and my debugger I can figure everything else out with a bit of research.

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   A co-founder told me that he expects to see me asking one or two questions per hour, and strongly implied that I need to do this if I want to survive my probation period. I was actually let go from my last job at the end of my probation period due to \\u201cbrisk communication style\\u201d and \\u201cnot asking enough questions\\u201d, so I\\u2019m freaking out now.

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   I don\\u2019t want to annoy my colleagues with a constant stream of inane RTFM-style questions, but I\\u2019m stumped on how else to hit my question target! Can you help me come up with ideas? Is there some big picture reason for this obsession with question-asking that I\\u2019m missing?

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