re: #66 windsagio

Of course it happens, but ask a 45 year old ex-unix engineer how easy it is for him/her to get hired at a McDonalds. Let alone, after 50.

… Or ask a 45 year old ANYTHING how hard it is to get ANY new job.

There is certainly a good case for “ageism,” probably always had, but it seems to me to be more pronounced, maybe that’s because I am 57 and have not been able to find full time employment in my career in the last six years and I am more acute to the problem.

Either way, it’s a problem. I have had professional recruiters tell me off the record that it’s my age, has nothing to do with my qualifications.