A handful of interviews? Man, they’re getting better responses than me, and I’ve been looking for over 6 years because I wanted to leave my last job.
Same in the us but really I don’t think jobs are falling into younger folks laps.
Having to do online cr’application’s and taking modified MMPI tests doesn’t help.
This just sounds like everyone? I am sure some ageism happens but the only “scientific” part of this is a quick single source comparison of total number of job hunters.
Its awful out there.
Yeah, I’m nowhere near 50 and I’m coming up on two years of Unemployment.
in my 30s, having the same experience. completely invisible.
Take a whole 2 seconds to consider how much worse it would be if you were over 50, before crying about it.
At 50 you’re bound to have more connections than 30 though. That’s way more people to ask for a job.
so assuming i’m 80% transparent, a 50 year old might be 95% transparent? very low opacity
Yeah, and you should take two whole second to realize how much worse it would be in you were over 50 and in Gaza. Checkmate.
Never put dates on the education part of your resume.
You can hide it on the resume, but a lot of sites that make you fill in all of the info on their applications make the date a mandatory field.
Easy fix. Just do like everyone else and lie. The truth doesn’t matter anymore.
If they call you on it, just say you’re ambitious and may run for President one day.
For what it’s worth these days in the USA, this specifically is illegal in Colorado, Delaware, Oregon and NYC. That’s in addition to protections provided by the ADEA.
Date? Half the jobs I apply for require a transcript!
Or–and stay with me here–get some graduate certificate and make that the only thing that appears on your education.
I don’t doubt that there are people who see old person and move on to the next candidate. I also believe that many people do not redefine themselves in their careers and have not grown since they were in their late 20s. You have to grow and adapt or get left behind.
Sounds like the job market as a whole.
There’s no job loyalty but the employers expect it for some reason and decide that someone with 5 years experience will stay around longer than 25 years - though the reality isn’t that at all.
The job loyalty thing pisses me off so bad. I enjoy staying at a single company and was at my former one for nearly 5 years. That whole time though was spent fighting tooth and nail for a promotion to a position I was already acting as and then shortly after getting it, I got laid off without any remorse. I built half of their system and knew it inside and out but apparently that meant nothing
I’m at a better company now doing much cooler stuff but I still think back to that and get angry again
Let the lesson to the younger generation be that if you have to fight for a promotion, go elsewhere and get it.
Yeah… I graduated roughly ten years ago and can absolutely confirm. The cognitive dissonance corporations have is astonishing as they refuse promotions and do frequent layoffs while at the same time complaining that workers aren’t loyal any more. Motherfucker I’d love to be loyal. Give me good pay, good benefits, and job security and I’ll stick around until retirement*, fuck.
*And MAYBE actually offer a retirement plan. Canada (and the US surely) need a huge union comeback
Most of the people around that age at my work who were laid off were basically forced to retire.
Have you tried getting into US politics?
Not old enough.
I’m not surprised. I’ve seen it, even in industries which value experience.
Every year I’ve been alive my resume grows and getting a job becomes easier and more lucrative. While im not yet 50, I find it hard to believe that experience is just going to disappear the second I’m over 50. This article is nonsense. People under 40 have been absolutely devastated in the job market over the last 20 years and we’re complaining about the most privileged generations (the current over 50’s) in world history not getting 100% of the jobs they don’t know how to do anyway.
Congrats on that worst-possible-take award.
At 50 you should be retiring to make way for new workers. That’s how you keep a healthy job market
Yes because the workers aren’t paying enough tax to support the owner class (people over 50)
50yo dont retire in any country lol. 55 is the earliest people consider retiring, and its mostly people who earn 200k+year with investments.
You gonna support me? Pay my mortgage? Damned fool
Nono one retires at 50
The system is fucked, almost nobody can retire that young. I wish I could retire at 50. I’ll be lucky to retire before I’m well into my 70s. They decoupled pay from productivity decades ago and we’ve been getting turbofucked by greedy assholes ever since.
Let’s start negotiating for this then: mandatory retirement at 50, paid for by social security taxes on remaining workers. Deal?
Paid for by social security taxes on millionaires and up.
Okay so the thing is if you take the worst example of income inequality in the west, the US, Boomers as a class own 8x more than billionaires as a class.
The people you’d be taxing are exactly the people who would be receiving social security.
We should remove the cap on social security taxes to keep the SSA solvent, and also to be fair rather than regressive, but that’s still not gonna cover retirements at 50.
I agree, it’s not the full answer, but It’s a good start.
Maybe instead of forced retirement, forced fewer hours? Heck, maybe a debt bailout for primary residence, student loans and any other life needing debt at 50, lower the age of Medicare to… 0, and I could start living off of very little dollars.
At fifty?
How the fuck are people going to retire at fifty?
I’m in a fairly good position, but I would have no chance of any sort of life if I had to live for thirty years without working
Are you trolling, or are you stupid?
Being able to retire at 50 means that you’ve contributed at least 25 years of labor. In my case about 35 years.
People get shorter prison sentences for committing murder.
possible if you are a doctor, a tech worker that has worked 10+years, a NURSE who did travelling. they have enough income and other investments to do that. but its usually 55.
They’re young most likely and think that 40yos are “old timers”
When you’re in your 50s unless you suffering a neurological disorder, you’re still sharp and aware. Just the body is starting to wear down more so they need accommodations at times. Why hire them when they can just not hire anyone and force the rest of us to worker harder for longer?
Wages haven’t kept up with expenses, and less people are able to retire early because of it.
Yah!
It’s not like the penalties on withdrawing from your retirement accounts early actually matters?
Who isn’t a billionaire at 50? You aren’t? You need to get a better job looser!A lot of people are having kids later in life. It’s tough to feel secure enough to retire at 50 when you have 2 preteens and a mortgage.
Even without kids, the math is tough - work 30 years (20-50) and then retire ~30 (50-80?). We’d need massive safety nets in place to make retiring at 50 tenable. I’m going to hit the labor market next year and am terrified by what I’m seeing out there
Yeah, retiring at 50 works if everyone under 50 is a slave.
What world do you live in where the average person can retire at 50!?!
I’m saying, that SHOULD be the standard, not that it is
