Posted on 03/12/2016 11:50:43 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I have been exposed to those who are older and looking for a job and I have had to think don't act and look so old. Have a redo. Wear a little makeup, pluck your brows and color your hair a nice color rather than salt and pepper gray. Remember to smile and sparkle too.
I recently left a job due to 70hr weeks. The younger guys can, and will do it. I can't.
It was almost 8 months before I found another.
Try being a 60 year old man looking for work in the tech business.
Sheesh.
Everyone thinks you don't know anything.
Now I'm a Program Manager at a very large tech company and glad to have it. It'll probably be the last one I ever see.
Excellent idea which runs smack dab into teacher unionization and the whole new “coddling” treatment kids are supposed to receive aka Common Core. An oldster would thrash kids into learning multiplication tables as groundrule #1. I think that would be great. Or storytelling. But as far as tutoring, the screaming would be universal.
My nephew (who struggled mightily with math) eventually climbed on top of it and developed a business tutoring kids from which he makes over $50K a year very part time. Smart kid. Going to Wharton now, like Senor Trump.
There is no need for any "gap" coverage. Lookup 72T distributions. It allows for penalty free distributions before 59 1/2..
Hey - remember when people like me warned you over 50s about voting for Obama and policies?
And you laughed, sneered, gave us the finger and called us racists?
Yeah - you can **** off now....
Bump
It's already happening.
I work for a MARQUEE tech company, the largest of it's type in the world...completely dominant and recognized by everyone.
At the campus where I work is 6 large buildings, 8,000 people.
At least 1/2 are over 40, and probably 25% over 50.
They have found experience matters. And their annual numbers show it.
I've worked for other tech companies...even Microsoft, and they were always kiddie day cares. Directors at 26, VP at 30.
But some companies have matured and hire what they believe will help them most.
Thank you. Find yourself a niche. There are lots out there. But think small. IMO lots of start-up businesses fail because people over estimate how much they can actually do and as we get older, the number of hours we can work tends to diminish. Also have to leave time for what I call oh sh** situations.
I still have my first check I ever earned from the business framed and on the wall - it was for all of $15 and took three months of hard work during which I was living on savings and credit cards and meals provided by friends.
Reminds me of when I was 45 (and looked 35) and was interviewing for a job with BMC Software. I was dressed in a two-piece suit, and all I saw walking around was 20-30 year olds wearing khaki shorts and shirts. It was almost like walking onto the set of Logan’s Run. I didn’t get the job but found a better one, instead. Age discrimination, although illegal, is alive and thriving in the USA, especially now....and especially if you’re not in one of the current “protected and special” groups of job seekers.
Yeah, tell me about it.
Just turned 60. Working in tech side by side with lots of twenty-somethings. I have to say that on the whole it’s both fun and challenging and the pay more than fine. Having said that I have to think I’m more the exception than the rule.
H1Bs + unprosecuted illegal age discrimination = older people being screwed again.
Now if we can just cutoff Medicare like several FReepers keep advocating, we could just kill all of us old people off and then young people could take our stuff, you know, pretty much like what Hitler did to the Jews, just a bit slower.
Great idea.
Now if they can just find a job.
Just a few weeks away from turning age 60. I have saved fairly well for retirement but should have started earlier in life. Currently I’m debt free including the paid off mortgage. I like my well paying job but it entails traveling which wears me down silly at this age now. I’m torn since part of me wants to retire and the other part wants to keep making hay while the sun shines. I will have no pension and if I ever am forced out of my job that may help me adjust better than if I leave now voluntarily. Its a tempest in a teapot my scenario compared to some of the more heartbreaking stories here. God bless you all.
When I hit 60 I was emotionally and financially ready to retire. That’s what happens when you start preparing at a young age. It’s a wonderful feeling knowing my wife and I are set for life.
Health forced me out, then when able to resume work, I found my ways of thinking and managing people were not what potential employers were looking for. I got mad instead of improving. Baggage is a horrible thing to contend with.
Back after 9/11 I got a part-time job (almost full time) working at Home Depot to make ends meet when there was no other work. The last time around with things crashed and I lost a full-time job I had my field when the company close, I applied at both Home Depot and Lowe’s and didn’t even get an interview. Course at that time real estate was completely in the toilet, and home decor and improvement stores when a world of hurt. I’m still trying to find up my last good job before I croak, but its been four years without an offer.
Keep your head up you old farts. I went from being a lead designer in three of the five divisions at Wright Patterson to being let go (2008) at 56 with the other older people at my company. I had just salvaged a multimillion dollar project for them too that wasn’t one of my projects. Nearly two and a half years later with no interviews I landed a temporary job physically catching diapers off the end of an experimental packaging line. The irony is I was a designer on one of the most advanced packaging lines ever in the 80’s. Walmart considered me for a “greeter” job at 60. We’re talking a guy here who designed a first generation hypersonic test chamber. I still rage. A young woman at P & G interviewed me for a contract job and she selected another person. A thank you letter to her for the interview kept me in mind and he only lasted four months, so I got my shot. Mr. machinist, photographer, statistician, product testing and evaluation, analysis and reports, testing machine improvements and lab work. When things were slow, I farmed myself out to other groups there, lol. Everyone there always asked me if there wasn’t anything I couldn’t do. I hope some HR types are reading this, just because we’re old don’t count us out. Professionalism is all about cooperation.
Ouch.
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