- you're still very very young - having several years of professional experience at 23 is really valuable - you're overestimating the extent to which ageism p

- you're still very very young - having several years of professional experience at 23 is really valuable - you're overestimating the extent to which ageism plays a role in software - you don't need to spend your whole software development career in one company (you're implying that you might do that) - provided that you have the aptitude, you can pick any field at this point; there are no options that it's too late for - a bachelor's degree is 3-5 years; you can have a bachelor's and a master's (if you really need the latter) by your late 20s. If you start now, you can be a doctor by your mid-30s. That's the "longest" option and it's still at a very young age. Your age absolutely isn't a factor in working on your education, provided that you know what you want to do. Overall I wouldn't be so down on your future either as a software developer or in any other field. What you probably need is some direction because you're still considering options that are very different from each other. But it's aboslutely not too late in any way.