If that former manager can’t see that you don’t get to be “Just like you” without gaining in years then you wouldn’t want to work for them.
Every few years I raise my definition old.
I’m old, and I don’t try to deny it with the “you’re only as old as your mind tells you” crap. One of the most annoying commercials on tv is the one where this woman says she doesn’t need one of those phone alert things to call for help because “thats for old people.” She’s gotta be in her 80’s. Every time the commercial comes on I want to yell “you’re old,,,accept it!”
Personnel droids batten down the hatches when they hear it is nearby.
I know what a squat switch (WOW switch) is, and can do 802.11(whichever) math, rf and/or binary, depending. I also cook.
Forget drawing a regular paycheck doing any of that kind of technical stuff. Thanks, we'll give you a call.
Build it yourself or give up, after a certain age. I'm not likely to turn me down for a job for being 'too old'.
/johnny
Thanks! Nice to receive on my birthday ;-)
In one of his debates Ronaldus Maximus (who was 73 when he was reelected in ‘84) defended himself against charges he was too old to be president by saying:
“I want you to know also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent’s youth and inexperience.”
One should respect their elders but as time goes on they get fewer and fewer in numbers. Rather than accept growing old gracefully, I fight back. Try parachuting out of a perfectly good airplane sometime. Or para sailing. The older I get the less fear I should show. I’m going to die anyways. Don’t fear the reaper the song says. I came into this world naked, kicking and screaming and with somebody elses blood all over my body and I can go out the same way.
If people in their 30s are unhappy because they think no one will hire them due to their age, why not start a company of their own and hire. . . people in their 30s.
It seems to me there are just as much “older” as “younger” people out there. “Older” can hire “older” if they like.
Start their own business if needs be.
She sound kinda thick in the skull.
We are hiring experienced people.
I work in the electronics industry.
Oh! and by the way, a lot of these young “potential” superstars have not got a clue about the “industry”
I had a 4.0 college grad ask me what solder is.
They know how to use matlab, but us old guys tell them what to use matlab for.
And quite frankly we did that stuff without crutches.
Over 70 .. Not old .. Chronologically challenged .. !
I am older than any of you so do what I say, then leave me alone!
I knew I was old when Mrs. Howell started looking good.
I’m still breathing... does that count ?
Older folks make wonderful contractors, and that is sometimes a way back in the door (if they don’t want to keep on being contractors, which has some advantages of its own).