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40 years old is aging/old?! That was more than a decade ago for me and I definitely didn’t feel aged at the time. I still spend all my time as an individual contributor. Their have been efforts to move me into more senior/management roles and I have refused them all. I know my strengths and working with people isn’t one of them.

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Was made a team lead recent and it's... interesting.

I always saw myself as an individual contributor, and rebel against the path that leads to what's effectively project management with zero daily coding. But being the lead of a smallish team, making sure everyone's working towards goals and helping more junior devs when they get stuck, is a surprisingly interesting challenge.

I graduated six months ago at 31 and am not starting my career as a junior at 32.

I started at 31. The beginning was somewhat rough as I had to endure a ton of pricks in their early 20s conducting interviews on their own.

Even to this day, I have never been hired after being interviewed by a youngster. I suspect karma might be a thing, so I just endure them all knowing little shits for 30-60 minutes and move on.

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