But the job is otherwise nice. I'm 34 and was unemployed for for 7 years total. The most pleasant job I had except for that guy. My boss has been programming fo

But the job is otherwise nice. I'm 34 and was unemployed for for 7 years total. The most pleasant job I had except for that guy. My boss has been programming for 20 years, still enjoys learning new languages, respects me, I respect him (for instance he just left for a holiday and told me he would use that time to learn Rust... I intrigued him talking about it at the job interview, his main programming language is C/embedded and he likes functional - Erlang, Elixir). I think I can just focus on work, put on headphones, tell people they can still ask me for help, and demonstrate that I'm a good and motivated programmer. Let the work do the telling. The only thing I really worry about is that he becomes a team leader and gets to manage me. I would like to prevent that if possible without dropping to his level - if possible. I don't have illusions that I can make him like me. When we're the only 2 people left in the room, we don't talk unless necessary.