Will Robertson's career in software development progressed as expected with experience steadily building on his educational foundation. Until he found himself unemployed and apparently unemployable. But he'd never given up on his dream. Or was it a fantasy? He'd thought the worst was over when he'd gotten a job with a small manufacturing company, Power Motors. His work was eagerly received by the PMI engineers and management. Then reality struck. Big fish eat little fish. Power Motors was acquired by a much larger entity. Will along with most of the engineering department was laid off. Over forty and back in the unemployment line, Will had to now swim in an ocean of young programmers with the latest skills, a technology marketplace suffering increasing creative destruction, encroaching white collar automation, and his own legacy thinking. Could he survive, even thrive, in the tech marketplace of the turbulent twenty-first century?