I am a hardware engineer with a lot of software experience to go with it. I have had no work since the "crash" in 2008 when I was 58. Since then no company ev

I am a hardware engineer with a lot of software experience to go with it. I have had no work since the "crash" in 2008 when I was 58. Since then no company even returns a "no thanks" letter. However I must admit there is a lot of karma involved. When I was 30, head of engineering, I was responsible for hiring a total of 30 to 40 engineers. I would have never hired anyone at my age. I didn't even think about it. It just seemed obvious. So I tell people I am retired, which means I'm old and unemployed. Like others in these comments I am continuing to work, but only on FOSS projects, like the Atom editor. I can now sling full-stack code with the best of them and I figure I could for 10 or so years. But there is no hope of gainful employment.