If You’re Over 50, Chances Are the Decision to Leave a Job Won’t be Yours

ProPublica ^ | Dec. 28, 5 a.m. EST | Peter Gosselin

[Galatians328]

A new data analysis by ProPublica and the Urban Institute shows more than half of older U.S. workers are pushed out of longtime jobs before they choose to retire, suffering financial damage that is often irreversible.

[Freedom56v2]

Curious, what writing service did you use?

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Go Resume. Not very expensive and has proven its worth over and over. I work serial contract jobs, so just one good hit is not enough; I need repeat and new business all the time.

I find the new style of resumes obnoxious. They are barely literate, are boastfully extreme, and stuffed with buzzwords, but most are initially screened by computers so the awkward new style does work.

If someone finds themselves stalled out while shopping a classic resume around, I’d advise them to give such services a try.

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Thank you for the information. When son was graduating and unable to find a position, I found a resume writer...not cheap, but effective :) Always good to have some names for the Rolodex—OOPS dating myself LOL

[SaveFerris]

Thanks, ya I saw that. Might not hurt to check it out.

I was thinking I should.

(Psalm144 and I share a disdain for a fake who rolled his face in Cheetos - lol)

[Popman]

Bmk

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I’m doing 1/5 of what I did for the Major.
That’s all I need.

[Notthereyet]

“Always good to have some names for the Rolodex—OOPS dating myself.”
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I retired, taking a package, two years ago when my Center Manager took a package. It was unforeseen as I loved doing the work. Thanks to my beloved’s planning we were in good shape. January 2019 is the start of my SS. Yea!

Back to Rolodexes... I am very old school and believed strongly in using multiple ways of documentation storage. Rolodexes came in very valuable, and not just for names and #s. Folks who knew me knew exactly which Rolodex to go looking for depending on what exactly they wanted. LOL

Even in my retirement I am still using Rolodexes! There is absolutely nothing wrong with using old school systems. If I lose my phone, I still have it all backed up on paper. If I lose my paper documentation there is the electronic back-up. For really sensitive stuff, there’s still other systems. LOL

I admit when I rummage through my Rolodexes, I so enjoy the feeling of seeing information at my fingertips!

[thecodont]

Nice story.

[minnesota_bound]

I will be 61 in 2019 and have a manager (hired several years ago) who got rid of all the original people in my dept and nearly 20 more since who were hired then fired or driven off like the others with me the only one left. He did try to get rid of me too by treating me and the others like dirt. He still bad mouths those in the dept. He only fired one person last year.....

I figure I file a age discrimination suit if I do lose my job. I figure he slowed down the firings as it made him look bad to his bosses plus his boss has a new boss who fired several hire ups so he and his boss do not want to make waves.

[gogeo]

Amazing how these MBA's can filter everything by the $$$ and miss the mark on how what they do affect the total health of the company they supposedly are representing.

Bean counters know the cost of everything and the value of nothing. A company where I used to work is just about totally mismanaged out of business one cut at a time.

The best thing to do is to compete against them.

[gogeo]

Thank you! It’s a tough decision since knows when “kick the bucket” time occurs. My financial advisor says to wait but when I do the math, I basically come out even. Unless I make it to 90+.

Most of the analysis I see emphasizes maximizing the amount one can collect from SS. That seems wrong headed.

[gogeo]

Enjoy!

[trebb]

Thanks for the better explanation of what I was trying to say - I forgot to mention positional burnout as clearly as you did - I both observed it and suffered from it.

[DoodleDawg]

I have no doubt that obama-care has a lot to do with it. The cost to cover health insurance for a young person is a small fraction of covering someone in their fifties and sixties. It amounts to thousands of dollars per year difference.

If you think this started with Obamacare then you're naive. This has been going on for years and years.

[chimera]

Sometimes managers don’t appreciate that for some work you need experience as well as smarts. The new hire had the latter, not the former. But sometimes you can’t tell someone the truth and have them accept it if their mind is already made up. Then they learn the hard way.

[Dubh_Ghlase]

Almost 63 here, with another 3-4 years to go in order to be where I want to be when I am ready to retire. In the meantime, my current company was the up-and-coming upstart competitor, with a wild-west mentality when I first joined. It was great, but as time progressed, I see it's being pulled down by the same bean-counter mission-creep that the previous 2 companies fell victim to.

With the retiring (and dying) of the original American movers & shakers in the industry, the shift I see happening is not giving me a warm-fuzzy for the future, or the future of my grandkids.

I have the title and outline already, and I need to write my behind-the-scenes book that I have been threatening for years...

[Psalm 144]

First time I’ve seen disdain used so gently!

:-)

[thirst4truth]

I do not know of Ken Thompson. My husband and I got started very early into the tech industry, I know of most of the "founders" not Ken Thompson. We bought our first PC in 1982, my husband was a natural born techie. Dual 5k floppies, 128K memory and a 8 or 9" amber monitor. Once friends and business associates found out we bought a new PC, it was not an IBM, but one of the first clones, everybody wanted one. So we became computer dealers and eventually began building custom high speed pc's all through the late eighties and early nineties.

Our main customers were programmers at Microsoft, no one had a faster machine than ours. We even had it tested at MS labs and they thought it was broken since it finished the routine in 5 minutes compared to others taking more than an hour. That is how we became the go to local computer company for MS top programmers.

[1Old Pro]

I totally agree with this assessment, Age discrimination is cool and politically correct. People over 55 are routinely discriminated against in the work force.

[1Old Pro]

I know pharmacists that are working in their 70's and 80's. It depends on what you get into.

Yes, some industries need workers. I think nurses can always get jobs as well as salesmen.

[farming pharmer]

Nurses especially. As long as you can endure physically, you've got a job. Also, I've worked with *a lot* of physicians in their 70's.

I got laid off at 51 from a poorly managed division of a lrge hospital system. It took a few months to find a job, but I now make (significantly) more than I ever have, with better job security. Go figure...

[Alas Babylon!]

Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4, 1943), commonly referred to as ken in hacker circles,[1] is an American pioneer of computer science. Having worked at Bell Labs for most of his career, Thompson designed and implemented the original Unix operating system. He also invented the B programming language, the direct predecessor to the C programming language, and was one of the creators and early developers of the Plan 9 operating systems. Since 2006, Thompson has worked at Google, where he co-invented the Go programming language.

Other notable contributions included his work on regular expressions and early computer text editors QED and ed, the definition of the UTF-8 encoding, his work on computer chess that included creation of endgame tablebases and the chess machine Belle.