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.

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