Me in the midst of a market full of more experienced developers:

I'm just a kiiid and my life is a nightmare!
I'm just a kiiid and I know that it's not fair!

I started young and the proofing yourself before getting taken serious took a while. In outsourcing on location I was many times "new" and the process started over and over again. I also thought, didn't I prove myself by now? No, not if you're new everytime. Be patient, your time will come. People with more experience just look further than software development itself and they don't expect the youngsters to do that what is often true. No, we won't refractor the existing shit to the new react etc. Doesn't matter if it's better.. We're building something sustainable, not the most modern or some state of the art tech. While commercial thinking is not really task of developer, I've seen what happens when the developers don't do it at all.

It's just aging, everything will be alright. Have patience. Everyone had to do it in their career.

@jestdotty I dig.

@whimsical people 100% judge you based on your age and if you wear glasses and say the buzzwords. your actual competence doesn't matter

pretend to work 80 hour weeks while pretending to be too busy to be in the office more than 30. winning combo of an ex boyfriend of mine who worked in AI for NASA and everyone thought he was a super genius when I couldn't ask him anything technical. but he wore fancy nerd clothes, fancy designer eye glasses which apparently stereotype people to seem smart, copied autistic excited nerd body language, and kept referencing papers that exist that he never understood, name-dropping, etc... every person he ran into he told them a different salary amount that he made. nobody has ever even asked me my salary so how does that conversation come up so many times I wonder. guy had ideas about everything in science and tech that he wanted to do and kind of like "ran hours long presentations" on his world-changing tech ideas that he never did nor even planned to

and if you dug into those things (which no one ever did) you'd find out that when he was a kid he carried a briefcase or something and thought he was gonna go fly to Africa to save the Africa kids and how silly that was because his dreams were unrealistic (I forget the details frankly. something about falling for a scam? idr)

and at this point the audience goes "awwww"

and then he gets promoted to some high caliber project even though he failed the last all of the ones he was ever on. because he's got the cultish attitude tech loves

There is a chance you're just ugly btw. That matters too.

@jestdotty lol. You are an interesting person.

I hate that I know what song this is, or that I ever owned this CD.

Simple Plan was really the worst and whiniest of the Emo Punk era.

@CaptainRant you're sounding like a psychiatrist :p

@whimsical psychiatrists don't say that. they just manipulate you into taking drugs, by literally leveraging social myths instead of educating anyone about science or studies which you'd figure they would bother with but they don't. evidently