[sown]

You probably should not really use your full name and age in most cases on the internet. It's weird out there and people may wish to do you harm. At the very least, it's better to keep your digital history out of the public eye (for google has indexed this page already and will never forget) -- at least until you're ready.

As for finding clients put off by your age, one possible way is to enlist the aid of an older person to do talking? I knew someone in high school that did that when he ran a training service. Also, don't mention your age.

People are always telling me to find a problem and solve it; get to know some group of people. If I only knew a group of people, heh. Or people.

If it makes you feel any better, I'm much older than you and have been doing programming 'professionally' for several years, like, as a career an' everything, and I feel just as lost as you. 'Cept now I'm old, embittered, and am looking for ways to just not work, take a break and go back to doing things rather than spending time at work.

[hellisonwright]

As I have said in another comment, I normally meet my clients personally and so they normally do know my age/name. It would be fantastic if you could point me in the direction of someone who could help me with this.

[sown]

> It would be fantastic if you could point me in the direction of someone who could help me with this.

Those guys I mentioned from my high school used their dad.

And some of my earlier comments about age and name were more about how you posted your age and name here, originally, without hesitation or prompting. Be careful about doing stuff like that.

[sown]

Good luck. You've got your shit together more than I did when I was 14, and, arguably now.

[hellisonwright]

Update: I've edited my name out of the submission text

[sown]

you've gotten good feedback on your site? Maybe you should do the same for your website URL.

[hellisonwright]

Done