Congratulations! You have just won a free set of steak knives. No, just joking, you win nothing. There are a number of distinct groups in technology these days. There are the 'Entrepreneurs', usually 18-35 years old, still probably living at their parent's house, living off Dad's monthly sales bonuses and coming up with 'the latest great app idea' almost every week, which invariably involves working out a way to be a middleman for a service or product that already exists. There are the 'Buzzworders': the guys who turn up to meetings and drop a whole bunch of crap they read on twitter like 'data lake'. I don't know why they do this, kinda don't care and am happy with it.

Then theres my group, whatever you call us. We're tried management, management just means less code and longer hours, and trying to get people dumber than you to work harder than you (reciprocally, this why often dumb people make good managers). We're veterans with no place to go; all our uni friends got burn-out years ago and went into floristry, opened a coffee shop or went into permanent psychiatric care. We're those old guys that the young programmers are terrified of. We've seen multiple booms already, worked with every known language, API, interface and technology, from SOAP through to node.js and Keras. We're compulsive builders, when our day jobs finish we're constantly tinkering on what we feel passionate about, Machine Learning, AI, Clustering. We're the 'Rick Sanchez's of the IT world. We don't give a fuck. We just write the best possible code and create the best possible solutions, because when all else is gone, thats all that makes sense.