How Safe Is Your Job if you’re over 50?
You are so right. I know people who are over fifty and have tried to work for ATT cellphone sales, for call centers, for AOL and they don’t last. They are let go, not promoted etc. I know they have a great work ethic, on time and so on.
I myself am a retired senior and would like to work. Don’t even know where to begin to look.
A very close friend of ours was just laid off from Verizon - part of the fall out from the MCI/Verizon merger - 49 years old and in middle management. I fear it may be a very long time before he is employed again, and I doubt it will ever reach the same salary. He has a generous severance, but it won’t last forever. It’s tough out there.