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Betsy McCloskey
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01/20/20 at 2:30PM UTC
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Older workforce

As an owner of a company I can tell you that I am thrilled when someone over the age of 30 or 40 on up applies for any job that I have open. I think once these companies that you're applying with a) get tired of the huge learning curve with new grads b) And get tired of teaching people how to behave in a job setting, they will do like I did and start looking for more seasoned people. I for one do not find the cost savings worth it.

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Melody Johnson
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02/11/20 at 6:49PM UTC
I have read that in some fields age discrimination stats as young as 35. It is crazy out here.
Betsy McCloskey
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01/27/20 at 5:08PM UTC
I started my own company due to a different form of "ageism" I was getting knocked for not being part of the culture, ie not hanging out at the bar after work and not wanting to golf with coworkers on the weekend. I wasn't 25 either. 35 at the time. I worked with people 50 hours a week, that was enough togetherness for me.
Kate Brennan
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Data centric problem solver, 2016 MIT MBA
01/27/20 at 6:21AM UTC
Ageism...the last acceptable discrimination in workforce. Over 55, MIT MBA Grad 2016..its not about current skills after 1st or 2nd interview, interviews go no further once they discover I am no longer 30!
Peg Bittner
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retired auditor now into volunteering
01/25/20 at 1:50AM UTC
I have heard this line so many times that at one time I truly believed it, until I was layed off at the age of 59 and tried to find a new job. I was very flexible in where I worked. I just wanted a position in an accounting department. I even gave potential employers to go part-time or even temporary. I had passed all the tests any company required. Gave them a resume that empressed them all. I even had one company call me back four times. But no one wanted me. Why? they would not say, because they can not say but we all know it was that I was 59 and they were forecasting at the most 8 more years of working as long as my health held out. So happy to hire older workers has its exceptions. Older employees mean people between 35 and 45. Come 45 a person hunting for work is tossing the dice on a career. What happen to me, happen to my mother 30 years earlier.
Titra G Hamilton
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Director at small business serving Federal Govt
01/24/20 at 11:41PM UTC
I am 50+ and am always looking to hire seasoned professionals. What we may lack in expertise in terms of the latest and greatest technologies, we more than make up in the areas of emotional intelligence, professionalism, business acumen, experience and work ethic.
Cary Chandler Foust Street
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Builder of businesses
01/24/20 at 3:44PM UTC
Sadly, ageism is too real, so I started my own company! It’s tough, but it’s sooo much better and empowering!
Sandra Romine Gretta
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01/24/20 at 2:12PM UTC
Not true about insurance companies looking for older workers. I worked 43 years for a well known casualty/property insurance company and they decided to try to fire me at the age of 64. Evidently I was no longer able to do my job (even though other co-workers were still using me as a reference or needed guidance up to my departure date). I quickly retired before I was fired. Three years later, I gave up trying to get back into the insurance industry. Sad. I was not ready to retire.....
Alyssa Prentice
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Looking for a fulfilling career
01/25/20 at 11:01AM UTC (Edited)
Sorry but this isn’t fair to those like me that have been looking for a job as hard as I have been. I’m almost 29, and never yet have been able to find a full time job. I graduated with a bachelors degree when I was 24. I worked hard for that degree, and places don’t even look at it. Ever since I moved to this city I live in, it’s either retail (customer services alike) or medical. Anything else requires too much experience because they want the older people. This is wrong and unfair to those who have been continuously applying. All I want is a basic office job but I never get called back or anything. I’m tired of retail, and minimum wage. I can’t make a living. I’ve got a family and bills. It’s hard to find a place that fits in with my disability as well, but still, it shouldn’t be this hard to even get contacted by anyone. It isn’t right to make younger people go broke because you can’t stand or have the patience to train and help them.
Jacquelyn L Foster
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01/24/20 at 1:54PM UTC
At 51, I'm starting over....the job hunt has been frustrating. I'm in a position where I don't look my age. It's scary though to go to job fairs and see so many people older than me looking for jobs. I legitimately do not want to be at McDonald's at 70 saying may I help you. I've been told by several recruiters it's an employees market. ..lowest unemployment....yada....yada...yada. Again though, who are they hiring because there are always a lot of older workers at these job fairs looking for jobs
Donna Macdonald
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Writing to a woman's heart...
01/24/20 at 1:33PM UTC
Pleased that older workers might considered more marketable than before!

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