Age...

I feel I'm a bit an exception in this environment...

Why?
Because of my age and because of my nationality and because of my area of expertise, or better because of the three of them together.
Let me be an engineer for a moment...

If I divide the colleagues by area of expertise, age and nationality I would got eight groups:

1. Techy, Young and Dutch
2. Techy, Young and not Dutch
3. Techy, Old and Dutch
4. Techy, Old and not Dutch
5. Non Techy, Young and Dutch
6. Non Techy, Young and not Dutch
7. Non Techy, Old and Dutch
8. Non Techy, Old and not Dutch

Not all the groups have the same number of representatives, and some groups are almost empty.
This is obvious, but... which are the empty or almost empty ones?

I'd say that the empty one is "Non Techy, Old and not Dutch", while the "Techy, Old and not Dutch" and the "Techy, Old and Dutch" are almost empty.

So the old people are mostly in the "Non Techy, Old and Dutch", and this is natural: the Dutch are the one who control the company in most of its aspects and they need Tech people who are mostly young, and a lot from India.

I'm old (yes I am, no doubt about it), I'm not Dutch (or at least not yet...), and I'm a technical person.

This combination is quite rare here, and this makes of me one of the few old techy...

I'm one of the few survivors of the age of the IT Dinosaurs still risking his life on the keyboard!