Don’t be cynical and prideful. Respect people older than you in the profession, even if in your judgment they are “dinosaurs”. Even if they’re not as well-versed in what you consider “The New Shiny Thing”, they’ve seen some shit and can teach you a thing or two.

Cynism is a life saver in the bullshit-ladden web industry though. You can't just join marketing and snort their stuff to make it all bearable as you still actually need a brain to understand and write code.

Also: Resistance is futile anyways. You will become a cynic sooner or later. It's unavoidable.

@Oktokolo Agreed. But it is unbecoming and rather vulgar to be cynical as a first-year coder. Unless you can prove that you’ve somehow already “been there, done that”.

Respect the people younger, too. Everyone has got something new to teach us

Not only that they survived the shit to tell the tale

@asgs I have no problem with that in the context of respect being a two-way street.

@stackodev Some bullshit should be obvious even to noobs - and most should be obvious to non-coders too. Most bullshit isn't even related to coding - you see it in any industry. And if the noob has made it through any formal education i would question their intellectual ableness if they didn't become at least somewhat cynic on the way...