I am 23, fresh out of college and working at the company where all of my colleagues are around 40. And i actually admire those people. They are experienced, confident and clearly know their way around. The project i was assigned to can be considered a "modern technology". And i am surprised how these older people who are supposedly out of touch with the newer stuff give me great insights every goddamn day of what will and won't work with this technology they don't know a lot about. I could have ignored them, dismissed their opinion on the grounds of their age and went on and learned the same things the hard way, i actually did some of that when i was just starting out. There is something about this outstanding experience level that let them see some kind of general things in technology and reach a point where you all new things just seem to differ in packaging. So basically i look up to those people, try to imitate their though process, decision making, try to learn how they think, the skills they have, etc. I still have some healthy criticism left, but it is gradually diminishing as things progress.
I hope i have not just got into too much positive discrimination though.)
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I am 23, fresh out of college and working at the company where all of my colleagues are around 40. And i actually admire those people. They are experienced, confident and clearly know their way around. The project i was assigned to can be considered a "modern technology". And i am surprised how these older people who are supposedly out of touch with the newer stuff give me great insights every goddamn day of what will and won't work with this technology they don't know a lot about. I could have ignored them, dismissed their opinion on the grounds of their age and went on and learned the same things the hard way, i actually did some of that when i was just starting out. There is something about this outstanding experience level that let them see some kind of general things in technology and reach a point where you all new things just seem to differ in packaging. So basically i look up to those people, try to imitate their though process, decision making, try to learn how they think, the skills they have, etc. I still have some healthy criticism left, but it is gradually diminishing as things progress. I hope i have not just got into too much positive discrimination though.)