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amen on that one. i am 41 years old, although i'm told by many that i look 30; that didn't help anyways at my job because, even though i was making employee of the month (as a temp) for the past 8 months, once the people who extend the contracts found out my birthdate, it was all over. i noticed that my co-workers who came in around the same time as i did (18 month contract) and were over 35 got the boot. my mgr was 25 with a bachelor's degree and knew nothing about management. BTW they extended my 20 year old daughter's contract! (LOL! we were doing the same job together)

Is it your age or income? My brother-in-law lost his job before Christmas last year. He was with the company for nine years and was one of their senior people. He is convinced that it was because his income was almost double the income of the lower seniority (and much younger) workers that the company kept. He still hasn't found a full-time job, but is going to school to get his bachelors degree.

Hopefully, the economy will pick up. I wish you the best of luck!

The company that writes my paycheck every two weeks doesn't care about age. I expect to work until I expire with my face planted in a keyboard. The key issue is having a good resume and the actual ability to make good on the claims in the resume. My company had me contracted out at $254/hr between June 2001 and December 2001. The customer employed my services to replace 4 Java programmers, 3 C++ programmers and a EE...concurrently. I'm on my second extension with the customer this year. The next 30 days have been arranged so that I can work from my home office in Idaho instead of 7 days at week at the customer's lab. I put in about 250 hours each month to cover all those positions on the very aggressive schedule that my customer is pushing.

I've been lining up new work for the balance of this year that I can do at the home office. I expect to transition off the crazy schedule with my current customer and work more normal hours for the balance of the year.

About the age issue: I'm 45. I've been working at this pace most of my life. I earned that BA in Molecular Biology from UCSD at age 19.