Wake up and smell the roses!!
There is an awful lot of work to complete before you get a command- on anything!!
Namely:
Opportunity,
Experience,
Proven Capability, and
Then you have to keep proving it.
Grey hair does not really fit into any of the categories.
If you are doing it well enough, for long enough, you will get there.
Seniority, what was that again???
The roses that you might be smelling could be the ones you take to the cockpit one day - as a token of your professional respect of course. With the little card attached noting the beige WRX goes just as well as the puce.