now i'm curious where you are that you're seeing this. east coast here, dc area, worked 3 different places and the average age has probably been 45 and rising. it has seemed to me that there's a lack of new talent coming in. i used to be afraid that my job would be in jeopardy because surely every kid was going to have a computer and be interested in computers and we'd be swamped with new programmers. instead it seems like a lot of kids today don't have personal computers. just, maybe, a game console, or a vr headset, but no actual computer. their parents might have one "for work" but not a gaming pc, so the kids don't take much interest. so i'm wondering where op is that he sees such a young workplace and thinks that's typical.
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