[stueynz]

Hmmm… between 20 & 30….

1. Being a rockstar dev means mgmt will cut you a lot of slack and overlook many sins. By the time you are 30 you will be “both too young and too old”

Too old to continue getting away with that jerk behaviour. Too young to know how to stop being that jerk.

I’ll admit I was a slow learner on that one

2. I had a major medical adventure my first year in uni.. I don’t finish with my bachelors degree until I was 22… the lesson is: progressing through life’s major transitions ( graduate uni, first job; first serious romantic relationship; kids etc..) happens at a different pace for many. It is not a competition to be married and kids on the way by age 28

Lessons learnt in my 50s: Recognise your younger Self in today’s crop of 20 somethings; enjoy their youthful exuberance and cut the jerks the same slack that the 50yo mgmt did to you