I'm catching up to you in terms of age and experience. Also self taught and hate the FAANG style code stuff because I just think it's not properly representativ

I'm catching up to you in terms of age and experience. Also self taught and hate the FAANG style code stuff because I just think it's not properly representative of real life, most of the time. I am also easily looked over for what seems like ageist or other reasons. I have not been able to fully overcome it. Even my own projects don't overcome this.