[PaulHoule]

I worked at one place where 50+ IT people were happy as clams but 30-somethings (like myself at that time) felt thwarted.

I knew one guy who got one of those fancy hair colorings done where they put Aluminum foil in your hair to put in streaks of white in and also gained some weight hoping he would be taken more seriously. I think he left and got an MBA.

Since then I worked at quite a few startups where I might have been the oldest guy, in one case I was respected (more than I realized at the time), in the other case I leaned in too hard to the C-levels who were pretty immature (I am sure the investors thought so) and it didn’t last.