yes. i’m a late 40’s engineer trying to come back to my industry after these 7 years of Obama have run my small business into the ground. i can’t even get interviews! no matter that i was a really good engineer earlier in my career. the time away from industry, age discrimination, the influx of indentured servants working on H1B visas at 2/3rds the salary of americans, and the complete handing-off of the recruitment process to non-technical twenty-something-year-old women in HR seem to be a toxic mix of circumstances that has lead me to personal financial ruin. i honestly have no idea how i will earn a living anymore. the despair and hopelessness is real. middle class americans are being systematically destroyed. it’s Marxism in action, and hardly anybody seems to be saying anything about it.
Oh if you are in Silicon Valley you have hit the magic age
You best bet is one of the government labs, or a really large company (like Hp or GTE or Loral) because any of the Googke, Ebay, Yahoo, Facebook, or startups aint even going to give you a second look