Ask HN: How do you overcome being devalued?
	I&#x27;ve spent the better part of the last 10 years specializing in a niche domain. My current place of employment has some &quot;industry veterans&quot; that have devalued my skills since the day I started working in this company. They insist on hijacking any conversation regarding my specialization, shutting me up, and ranting profusely about things they don&#x27;t have experience or knowledge to speak of. I would probably take this in stride if their answers were right. Just to make this clear, these are not subjective answers. For example, in one case I showed my coworker that his processor isn&#x27;t faulty and why he was getting the result he did not expect.
I don&#x27;t have a fancy title or decades of chair warming to throw my weight around. (They are smart guys, at their own game, but insist on being the smartest at everything under the sun.) Time and time again I have sparred with them and proven them wrong but to no benefit. In hindsight, probably to my detriment.<p>I&#x27;m exhausted of being devalued. Have you ever experienced something like this? What did you do about it to better your situation? Thanks in advance for your advice and suggestions