Makes sense. Though as I said in an earlier post, there are some folks that are young, can talk a great story, get a book contract and end up making a decent $

Makes sense. Though as I said in an earlier post, there are some folks that are young, can talk a great story, get a book contract and end up making a decent $ from their writing. I don't see much wrong with that approach though I know some have a problem with that. Just like you, I did not tell my age to clients when I was 14-15. But that was more out of fear. Ones that found out before giving me the project(via sites like rentacoder/elance) would never pick me. So I quit sharing my age until later into the project once I'd knocked their socks off. Ironically, I was able to provide a better service to clients back then than I can today. Today I care wayyy more about money/ROI. Back then I only cared about the actual work. Money was almost zero motivation.