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It is difficult to hide your age. LinkedIn makes it impossible. If you want to be competitive, you need to share your accomplishments. If they are actual accomp

It is difficult to hide your age. LinkedIn makes it impossible. If you want to be competitive, you need to share your accomplishments. If they are actual accomplishments, they are Gooogleable in a simple search anyhow. Hiding your age by leaving off dates says, "Hey! I'm old enough to hide my grad dates!" (which means you are now over 30) This culture is not helping itself. We all need to find the bravery to stand up against this at every age, because, I hate to break it, every person under 30 on this forum will be over 40 before they know it. I sure hope it finds them at the very tippy top of their career game. Our economy doesn't look great right now. Best of luck finding that chair before the hip-hop stops.

zeckalpha 9y ago
I am under 30 and do not list my graduation date.
- brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
  you may want to start listing it and take advantage of the ageism in your favor while you can. :) I had a 28 year old friend who was getting botox a few years ago. I could not believe it; they looked so young to me. They told me I didn't understand how bad it had gotten in NYC. I thought they were nuts. Now I see why they were freaking out. This climate is so unhealthy. If we thought we had real problems with body image and eating disorders--- I fear the level and scope of mental illness this kind of youth-loss anxiety tech bro culture will deliver unto us as time passes and we do nothing. This plus body image plus some of the social issues that come these plus drugs plus work only social circles seems like a recipe for a kind of health crisis epidemic that---- we totally see this coming and are doing nothing about it. In fact, we are still convincing many of our own on this very forum that its even a problem even as Chinese workers are facing overworking themselves to death as a health crisis.
  - zeckalpha 9y ago
    Thanks for the advice, and it may hold true in some markets but in my market I've been seeing ageism affect the young, too.

zeckalpha 9y ago

I am under 30 and do not list my graduation date.

brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
you may want to start listing it and take advantage of the ageism in your favor while you can. :) I had a 28 year old friend who was getting botox a few years ago. I could not believe it; they looked so young to me. They told me I didn't understand how bad it had gotten in NYC. I thought they were nuts. Now I see why they were freaking out. This climate is so unhealthy. If we thought we had real problems with body image and eating disorders--- I fear the level and scope of mental illness this kind of youth-loss anxiety tech bro culture will deliver unto us as time passes and we do nothing. This plus body image plus some of the social issues that come these plus drugs plus work only social circles seems like a recipe for a kind of health crisis epidemic that---- we totally see this coming and are doing nothing about it. In fact, we are still convincing many of our own on this very forum that its even a problem even as Chinese workers are facing overworking themselves to death as a health crisis.
- zeckalpha 9y ago
  Thanks for the advice, and it may hold true in some markets but in my market I've been seeing ageism affect the young, too.