I'm 40+ years older than you. There is almost nothing out there now that I work with that was around when I was 26. Maybe electricity. Unix did not come around until 1978.


I think you have a lot of bad assumptions.

1. Employers want people who know diverse technologies and are willing to learn new ones.

2. The modern workplace demands flexibility, except in monstrous corporations where employees are siloed into niches, and knowledge transfer is viewed as decreasing your job security.

3. There is no age cutoff for learning, it goes on until you are permanently horizontal.

4. Do not confuse being a tool user with:
understanding IT procedures,
how software really works,
knowing network protocols

Data analysts are tool users, usually Excel or SAS. Support staff, programmers, etc., have to know what goes on under the hood as well as how to work a spreadsheet.