Shall I send you the list of job applications I’ve submitted since 2009 without getting any interviews?
No because it has too many reasons. I’m current on technology and I can do old school code so I get contacted all the time. We hire people my age all the time because we can speak English. But a lot of them say “I’m too old to learn anything new”. We recently lost a programmer because he didn’t want to learn Java/Groovy/Grails.
But the problem isn’t employment. The problem is the hole. If you could get out of the hole, what would you do differently? When I think about cashing in and going for the big bucks, I remind myself that people did that and lost everything.
For men, job is everything so we tend to fixate on it. We tie our worth to our job. It becomes our grindstone. I am a perfect example of this mentality. I will die at my desk, just like my father.
Side: My wife asked me how we could get more money and I told her to get a full-time job. So she did. We broke 6 figures for the 1st time since 1998 when we took a 65% paycut to come here.