>Ahem. I am 58 and it's not so depressing. Especially when you think of the alternative.
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>Sorry, that was a joke. :) Meant no offense.
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>Actually, there are days when I actually wished I was older. As an instructor, some of my students are older than I am, and a few times that causes a bit of tension.

One of our newer programmers is 20 years older than me. It took some time for me to beat into him that he had better listen to me as I was mentoring him in his transition from PHP to ASP.NET.