Soon to be 58 year old here. In a lot of ways I'm better at this software stuff than I was at 28 - looking back and comparing to now I really sucked at it back then. But the aforementioned cultural factors mean that it's a lot harder to find work (I think this is what you were alluding to with your edit to change to YOUNG). Part of the advantage now is knowing what things are important to learn and knowing what will become ephemera because you've seen so much ephemera come and go over the years.