Frankly, if there are a lot of older folks (40 is older? I am in deep, deep trouble) with lots of experience having trouble finding jobs, then this is a ripe ma

Frankly, if there are a lot of older folks (40 is older? I am in deep, deep trouble) with lots of experience having trouble finding jobs, then this is a ripe market to recruit from. Of course, I have a funny perspective -- I work with a guy who wrote compilers for Symbolics, and another who started programming before I was born (and I am in the supposedly-being-age-discriminated-against category). Between the two of them, and two more folks my own tender middle-age, they are the most productive, awesome folks I know and hope to keep working with for a long time to come. Seriously, if this is reality then start recruiting "old folks" -- you now have an unfair advantage in terms of recruiting.