I was older when I started-36 year old freshly minted Computer Engineer. Dumb lucky enough to take the first offer I got from the folks I had been interning wit

I was older when I started-36 year old freshly minted Computer Engineer. Dumb lucky enough to take the first offer I got from the folks I had been interning with. Siemens Communications in Boca, 1996. I was working with about a hundred engineers on a huge code base in an arcane language (CHILL). I was able to learn Intel assembly to patch live systems, pretty good proprietary configuration management, and quite a bit about the Dilbert principle. At that time, I worked with Old guys who were great, and old guys who were less proficient than me. One of my friends who was 22, came in and ran a project. The bottom line is, if you were adept when you started, you most likely get better with age, if you just apply yourself a bit.