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I liked the sentence: """ She says that the biggest problem for many older people is “ageism, rather than the process of aging itself.” """ When I nowadays ap

I liked the sentence: """ She says that the biggest problem for many older people is “ageism, rather than the process of aging itself.” """ When I nowadays apply for jobs (I am 50), I start to experience this already. Kids interview me and I ask myself: where are the companies, where others like me work, so I don't have to answer silly questions about failing memory and hurting backs anymore. Mine doesn't hurt and my memory is crystal clear - like the one of my 86 year old mother. Don't want to know what happens in 30 years from now. What I do experience: When I need an appointment with my doctor, I am asked, when I want to come. My mother who needs to see the doctor much more urgently, has to wait for 4-5 weeks.

Yhippa 11y ago
I'm not 50 yet but seriously, where do developers work as we age. It seems like I see fewer and fewer of us past 30.
- hga 11y ago
  As far as I can tell after serious study of this†: You work in a field that doesn't care about or can respect age, embedded and especially jobs requiring security clearances (which are expensive to get for the very first org that hires you), you become a consultant or otherwise self-employ, you work directly for the government, you get very lucky, or you find another line of work. †I first became aware of this in a particular job search when in my mid-late '30s, I got a clue, scrubbed my resume of all indications of how old I am, and then got a massive increase in responses. Started following the issue closely since then. I hear its very bad in the Bay Area, but, oh, based on an acquaintance in the Boise, Idaho region after HP laid off a bunch of older guys like himself and replaced them with H-1Bs, it's bad in many places (after consulting for a while he had to settle for a state government job, helping to rescue a bunch of Java done by a literally criminal body shop).

Yhippa 11y ago

I'm not 50 yet but seriously, where do developers work as we age. It seems like I see fewer and fewer of us past 30.

hga 11y ago
As far as I can tell after serious study of this†: You work in a field that doesn't care about or can respect age, embedded and especially jobs requiring security clearances (which are expensive to get for the very first org that hires you), you become a consultant or otherwise self-employ, you work directly for the government, you get very lucky, or you find another line of work. †I first became aware of this in a particular job search when in my mid-late '30s, I got a clue, scrubbed my resume of all indications of how old I am, and then got a massive increase in responses. Started following the issue closely since then. I hear its very bad in the Bay Area, but, oh, based on an acquaintance in the Boise, Idaho region after HP laid off a bunch of older guys like himself and replaced them with H-1Bs, it's bad in many places (after consulting for a while he had to settle for a state government job, helping to rescue a bunch of Java done by a literally criminal body shop).