40 now. In my teens and 20s, I was much more curious and eager to spend hours and days learning everything about every part of the stack. I started building websites when I was 7 or 8 years old and just kinda kept going, but peaked in the 20s for sure.
But I didn't learn Javascript till my 30s, and then transitioned into that as my full time job after a couple years.
My more recent jobs have become a lot easier and more relaxed, mostly just riding off what I had learned from earlier years.
That also means I'm way behind the curve now, and will probably be completely obsolete in a couple more years. I don't have the same interesting in learning yet another language or framework as I once did. The industry has no use for tired old men like me who don't know anything about AI, lol.
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