Your story resonates and looking back there is a sort of inevitability to it all.
Age 30, those in their 50s and 60s seemed thoroughly negative - a drag on the business. Tried it before and won't work resistant to change, inability to deal with new tech and ideas etc.
Inevitably I became one of the 50+. I began to adopt the views of those who 20 years earlier I had found so negative. Interesting jobs went to younger colleagues. Any opinions I had were increasingly ignored. I began to think old systems were the best. I was bored and demotivated.
I had the good fortune to be a public sector employee - when offered an early retirement deal (age 58) it took little time to accept. Absolutely no regrets since. I spent almost exactly 40 years (bar a few months) working - it was time to do something different for a decade or two (health etc permitting).
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