In this very moment most of my colleagues are younger than me. While I'm writing this I'm 36 and I'm working here in Italy for Vidiemme Consulting SRL from 8 years already - counting that my age was pretty average when hired, it didn't took too much.

I'm not scared by aging or have any prejudice about that - working as company internship tutor with with high school students for 4 years helped a lot in this sense. They are typically 18, which means I lived a 14 years long 'moving window gap' that's getting larger and larger.

Working with them is fascinating and funny: every year I hear different dreams, visions, goals and passions. When I was 18 (1998) I loved computers and just wanted to be a good coder to be happy, mainly inheriting my father passions. Now imagine my face when I heard 'I want to write code for becoming rich. You can sell a stupid app and get a lot of money nowadays!' from one of my trainees!

Time changes a lot of things but, what I've figured out is that in our job (and in life too?) the trick is focusing on what doesn't change. Or what changes slowly than the others. Every year, choosing a good technology for a beginners project, that should be easy to understand but not too much out-of-market, or an interesting topic, enough future proof but common too, is one of the greatest challenges we've to face.

But there is something that is explained every year mostly in the same way: how responsabilities works, when you've to solve a problem by yourself, in team or you've to ask for help, how to recognize when is the time for a break and when you've to keep your eyes peeled, how to speak with people with different backgrounds, what a goal is and how you've to plan the road for getting there...

Not only that's something that matters in life: this's the only true time-proof cross-platform professional knowledge you can grow and carry on along the entirety of your carreer, no matter what's trendy right now. Technologies have such a short life span that everybody can (have to!) learned them from scratch, anytime! Meanwhile...

Plot!

Dry decided to join the Gateways SRL company internship program: he'll learn how to use the famous Gateway Pistol, which can teleport everything from a side to another, and will turn in a real professional! Use the LEFT/RIGHT for moving Dry and UP for jumping. Hold down the A or the B BUTTON and then hold the LEFT/RIGHT/UP/DOWN or diagonals for aiming. Release the A or B BUTTON for firing a Gateway Bullet: use A for the blue one and B for the red one. Hold down the A and B BUTTON for closing both gateways. Good luck!

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