I am very lucky to look significantly younger than I actually am, because in my field (IT) Iโd already be not a candidate at many companies if I looked my age. In IT, 35 is old and 40 is professionally dead.
Very fortunate to have this option, but I plan to retire before I start looking too old to hire. Terrible we have to think about things like this but itโs the society we seem to have structured, against all sense and reason.