‘I feel invisible’: over-50s reveal harsh realities of trying to get a job

a month ago by return2ozma to c/antiwork

Candidates describe feelings of rejection after submitting hundreds of applications but getting a handful of interviews

DarrinBrunner 26 points a month ago

And, starting Jan 1. People on Medicaid are going to be required to have a job to keep Medicaid. They can also volunteer or enroll in classes.

Very few will be able to do this, not because they won't, but because no one will hire them, regardless of skills. Volunteer opportunities are few in some communities, and classes are expensive.

More old people will die because of this, but of course, NOT the old people who passed the Big Beautiful Bill.

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orca 12 points a month ago

Only 6 years away for me. Exciting times!

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eldavi 8 points a month ago

i had this realization a while ago and it made me chose a union shop because of it -- it's probably the closest i'm going to get to retirement.

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orca 8 points a month ago

I’m in tech myself and somehow still employed. Mostly because I got into the field early and have like 18+ years under my belt. I have friends that have since left the field entirely and this feels like it will be my last tech job.

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eldavi 5 points a month ago

same here on all accounts except it's been 22 years for me and the knowledge that my autism scares off most employers makes me aware that it won't be my choice that this is my last tech job.

Mostly because I got into the field early ..

i'm convinced that's how i got started in the first place -- i didn't have the education or experience, but i knew how to recompile a kernel and knew what bash was so i got hired at a time when there was a deep enough labor shortage for people in the field. it makes me feel sorry for the people graduating today since the fields are so saturated today.

the funniest/worst part is that i was a software engineer for over 10 years of it -- but kept earning and IT salary because of my lack of experience. so i could have been well off enough to survive my 50's+ years if someone had just told me or if levels.fyi had existed sooner. lol

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orca 3 points a month ago

I followed kind of a similar path. I didn’t go to school or anything for programming. It was my natural learning path from the graphic design field after seeing how web development was blowing up. On top of that, my dad was an MS-DOS nerd, so he had me navigating a terminal when I was like 12. So I never needed hand-holding at jobs. I was definitely underpaid for quite a while before I started connecting more and more with others in the field.

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AllNewTypeFace 11 points a month ago

Euthanasia booths will be provided for over-50s who have failed to use their competitive years to accumulate sufficient wealth to live off passive income

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eleitl 4 points a month ago

Which passive income, as growth has ended, and we're in contraction?

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AngryCommieKender 4 points a month ago

Invest in disasters. Find an easily preventable disaster that we know is gonna happen at some point, and invest in the types of companies that clean up damages caused by said disaster.

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MaxLemminist 1 point a month ago

Wealth? I'll accumulate sufficient weapons.
The one delivering my booth will the first to go.

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fckreddit 7 points a month ago

"I feel invisible" hurts so much. I feel the same that I will never get the job. At least, I am privileged, but most people are not.

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lIlIlIlIlIlIl 5 points a month ago

Yeah, the under-50s are saying the same thing. This isn’t about age of the person, it’s about the broken system that we must change

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