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Wait until you get older. Age discrimination is a real thing.
The ideal situation is one where someone asks for your resume.
So is gender discrimination.
The spelling of my first name is such that people mistake it for female (usually a slightly different spelling for males - at least in the USA). So I have gotten a few employers interested in me because they saw a lot of experience, and wanted to add a female to the team for diversity/etc.
That's great - I am all for diversity, and my profession is mostly male, which sucks. But it sucks even more when it is obvious that they were interested in me because they thought (wrongly) that I was female, and then lose interest when they find out I am not the gender they expected. Not common, but it has happened.
I am sure the age discrimination has happened too - but it hasn't been as obvious.