IMHO, age shouldn't be looked as part of 'know-how'. We're getting into the day and age where the serious hardcore people like Evi Nemeth, Larry Wall, Dennis Ritchie, and others are being surpassed by our own generation of people that are working with the latest and greatest or extending the functionality of what's already good. I've found though, it's a lot harder being younger and knowledgeable in the IT field (I myself being one of them) in abstract fields such as unix administration, where I'm surrounded by people that're old enough to be my dad. Granted, they're smart in their field but occasionally I run into those that force me to prove myself, as if me being mid-20s is a bad thing and somewhere I took a wrong career turn. As long as you have an open mind and are willing to learn new things, age doesn't have a thing to do with it.
