Precisely. I'm more valuable than someone with 10 years of experience. I produce working code faster (even if I don't work as many hours). I produce better designs. I produce fewer bugs. I'm worth more.
If you are trying to hire me, and you want to pay me like I have 10 years of experience rather than like I have 30, you just selected yourself out as a candidate for my services.
I will disagree with the parent on one thing: It can take a while to find a new job - months instead of weeks. The market for people like me is kind of thin. On the other hand, the supply is thin, too. If you need someone like me, you don't just want to hire two 3-to-5-years people to try to replace me.
And to answer part of the original question: I'm in embedded systems. I don't know if my answers work in web programming.
I think modern embedded systems has a bias built in. To be productive, you have to be proficient in a _LOT_ of topics, many of which are not easy to come by experience wise. This tends to bias towards high experience.
If you are trying to hire me, and you want to pay me like I have 10 years of experience rather than like I have 30, you just selected yourself out as a candidate for my services.
I will disagree with the parent on one thing: It can take a while to find a new job - months instead of weeks. The market for people like me is kind of thin. On the other hand, the supply is thin, too. If you need someone like me, you don't just want to hire two 3-to-5-years people to try to replace me.
And to answer part of the original question: I'm in embedded systems. I don't know if my answers work in web programming.