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Brilliant! I'm only 30 but I know plenty of older folks that have a hard time finding jobs. This is basically an issue across all industries. I'd love to get in

Brilliant! I'm only 30 but I know plenty of older folks that have a hard time finding jobs. This is basically an issue across all industries. I'd love to get involved in this and help it grow.

adamqureshi 10y ago
email me! in my profile. I gotta figure some stuff out.
johansch 10y ago
Across all industries? Really?
- mathgeek 10y ago
  I think the issue of finding a job may be across most other industries, and thus older people will have difficulty regardless.
- terrib1e 10y ago
  Ok the word 'All' implies quite a bit, but I definitely think it's an issue in a lot of industries. Yes age and experience definitely get you to much higher positions but I was thinking of 50+ aged people losing their jobs and then having to find a new company to work for. I've worked in a variety of places and definitely see the trend of it being difficult to get hired or to fit in. The company I currently work for basically runs all of the healthcare in my state and for team lead and supervisor positions upper management seems to prefer people in their early twenties because they're more "pliable". There are men and women here that are older and needed a job to support their family and they're stuck making way less than their experience dictates. I see them getting passed up for promotions and opportunities all the time. Obviously I can't definitively say it's ageism because I don't think things like that are always explicit but from talking to them they definitely infer that that's the reason. Could it be a lack of ambition or that they used their fire up at their previous jobs? Maybe. Something like this is never black and white so who knows?
amyjess 10y ago
I've heard it said before that ageism is the only -ism that everyone ends up experiencing. You're 30, and I'm 32, which means that in a decade we'll both be in a federally protected class. I don't think there would be federal protections if ageism wasn't a huge problem for 40+ people. In another decade, we'll both be in our 50s, where ageism is definitely a problem. I think all younger people, myself included, have a responsibility to fight ageism now so we don't get bitten by it ourselves later.
- terrib1e 10y ago
  Let's fight the good fight. Preemptive job security...I like it haha.

Brilliant! I'm only 30 but I know plenty of older folks that have a hard time finding jobs. This is basically an issue across all industries. I'd love to get involved in this and help it grow.

adamqureshi 10y ago

email me! in my profile. I gotta figure some stuff out.

johansch 10y ago

Across all industries? Really?

mathgeek 10y ago
I think the issue of finding a job may be across most other industries, and thus older people will have difficulty regardless.
terrib1e 10y ago
Ok the word 'All' implies quite a bit, but I definitely think it's an issue in a lot of industries. Yes age and experience definitely get you to much higher positions but I was thinking of 50+ aged people losing their jobs and then having to find a new company to work for. I've worked in a variety of places and definitely see the trend of it being difficult to get hired or to fit in. The company I currently work for basically runs all of the healthcare in my state and for team lead and supervisor positions upper management seems to prefer people in their early twenties because they're more "pliable". There are men and women here that are older and needed a job to support their family and they're stuck making way less than their experience dictates. I see them getting passed up for promotions and opportunities all the time. Obviously I can't definitively say it's ageism because I don't think things like that are always explicit but from talking to them they definitely infer that that's the reason. Could it be a lack of ambition or that they used their fire up at their previous jobs? Maybe. Something like this is never black and white so who knows?

amyjess 10y ago

I've heard it said before that ageism is the only -ism that everyone ends up experiencing. You're 30, and I'm 32, which means that in a decade we'll both be in a federally protected class. I don't think there would be federal protections if ageism wasn't a huge problem for 40+ people. In another decade, we'll both be in our 50s, where ageism is definitely a problem. I think all younger people, myself included, have a responsibility to fight ageism now so we don't get bitten by it ourselves later.

terrib1e 10y ago
Let's fight the good fight. Preemptive job security...I like it haha.