You have little nothing to offer people who have been in the field decades more than you. They don't care what signal they're broadcasting to you.
Don Draper "I don't think about you at all" elevator meme in real life.
Little known fact: before he was Pied Piper's cool attorney in Silicon Valley, but after his first job at a Superstore, Ron LaFlamme lived in NYC where he was told that he "wasn't thought about at all" by Don Draper. https://youtu.be/LlOSdRMSG_k