I would advise your friend to keep that job for a long as possible, since it will be his last IT job.
For Columbus, I’ve seen recruiters hawk openings for:
- Wendy’s
- Limited Brands
- an Insurance company
- possibly a bank, with offices downtown
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Recently, I re-wrote an IT resume for someone in Boston. This fellow is homeless & is living out of his car. I’ve sat on speakerphone calls, where he’s being offered $25 per hour as a contractor, with no benefits. This is no future for dinosaurs.
Amtrak is hiring conductors for the Northeast Corridor. I need to sit down with my homeless IT friend & get him to apply. Amtrak would be a better deal than the crap these Desi bodyshops are selling.
He knows. All the people his employer have hired besides being Indian are 23-30 years old.
He said they keep him around because they have old old record records on a old computer language the young ones do not know and they never got around to moving them yet to a new format...something to that..
Ageism is the real “racism” in this country, not racism.
Once you reach 40-45, no company with f/t and benefits will hire you if you are older than that unless you got super skills.