Typical American Career path - esp after 50

[Anonymous]

I am a 56 guy and got hired by a semi-tech company 2 years ago with no issues. I do consulting on the side, and am fully ready to ramp it up to full time if I get canned for any reason.

Also, I do go to the gym (have weighed the same since I was 22) and make an effort to dress NOT like I am still wearing vintage 90s dress shirts and baggy pants.

Maybe I am oblivious, but I don't think I've suffered any age-based discrimination.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a 56 guy and got hired by a semi-tech company 2 years ago with no issues. I do consulting on the side, and am fully ready to ramp it up to full time if I get canned for any reason.

Also, I do go to the gym (have weighed the same since I was 22) and make an effort to dress NOT like I am still wearing vintage 90s dress shirts and baggy pants.

Maybe I am oblivious, but I don't think I've suffered any age-based discrimination.

What role?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a 56 guy and got hired by a semi-tech company 2 years ago with no issues. I do consulting on the side, and am fully ready to ramp it up to full time if I get canned for any reason.

Also, I do go to the gym (have weighed the same since I was 22) and make an effort to dress NOT like I am still wearing vintage 90s dress shirts and baggy pants.

Maybe I am oblivious, but I don't think I've suffered any age-based discrimination.

By semi-tech, do you mean govt/DOD IT services?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a 56 guy and got hired by a semi-tech company 2 years ago with no issues. I do consulting on the side, and am fully ready to ramp it up to full time if I get canned for any reason.

Also, I do go to the gym (have weighed the same since I was 22) and make an effort to dress NOT like I am still wearing vintage 90s dress shirts and baggy pants.

Maybe I am oblivious, but I don't think I've suffered any age-based discrimination.

56 is someone born 1968, hardly old at all. Normal retirement age non government is 65-67 so we still have people at work from 1957-and 1959.

Someone who is 56 today they are set to retire in 2035 if they stay to 67 which is the regular retirement date for SS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a 56 guy and got hired by a semi-tech company 2 years ago with no issues. I do consulting on the side, and am fully ready to ramp it up to full time if I get canned for any reason.

Also, I do go to the gym (have weighed the same since I was 22) and make an effort to dress NOT like I am still wearing vintage 90s dress shirts and baggy pants.

Maybe I am oblivious, but I don't think I've suffered any age-based discrimination.

56 is someone born 1968, hardly old at all. Normal retirement age non government is 65-67 so we still have people at work from 1957-and 1959.

Someone who is 56 today they are set to retire in 2035 if they stay to 67 which is the regular retirement date for SS

Have you read this thread? We are talking about people staying employed in professional corporate jobs past their 50s. Yes, most people haven't planned to retire before retirement age of 67, but you have to remained employed -- what happens is many are laid off in their 50s, and cobble together income/jobs from whatever is willing to hire them, ie not corporate professionals, with a significant drop in pay and benefits.

Curious about the 56 PP, not sure what is semi-tech and what role? For instance, general counsel at a tech firm generally is pretty immune from ageism. Same with CTO etc. That's been said over and over, if you make it to leardership/executive level you have some protection. If you are staff personel, its much more challenging.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a 56 guy and got hired by a semi-tech company 2 years ago with no issues. I do consulting on the side, and am fully ready to ramp it up to full time if I get canned for any reason.

Also, I do go to the gym (have weighed the same since I was 22) and make an effort to dress NOT like I am still wearing vintage 90s dress shirts and baggy pants.

Maybe I am oblivious, but I don't think I've suffered any age-based discrimination.

56 is someone born 1968, hardly old at all. Normal retirement age non government is 65-67 so we still have people at work from 1957-and 1959.

Someone who is 56 today they are set to retire in 2035 if they stay to 67 which is the regular retirement date for SS

Have you read this thread? We are talking about people staying employed in professional corporate jobs past their 50s. Yes, most people haven't planned to retire before retirement age of 67, but you have to remained employed -- what happens is many are laid off in their 50s, and cobble together income/jobs from whatever is willing to hire them, ie not corporate professionals, with a significant drop in pay and benefits.

Curious about the 56 PP, not sure what is semi-tech and what role? For instance, general counsel at a tech firm generally is pretty immune from ageism. Same with CTO etc. That's been said over and over, if you make it to leardership/executive level you have some protection. If you are staff personel, its much more challenging.

At the age of 55 I got a really big IT related job and at the age of 58 got a decent IT job. However, like Arron Rodgers and Tom Brady time is catching up to me. You can look 10 years younger not 20 years younger so it is what it is. But you have to look younger, be full of energy, be relentless in your job hunt and stay current and you can find jobs up to 60.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am a 56 guy and got hired by a semi-tech company 2 years ago with no issues. I do consulting on the side, and am fully ready to ramp it up to full time if I get canned for any reason.

Also, I do go to the gym (have weighed the same since I was 22) and make an effort to dress NOT like I am still wearing vintage 90s dress shirts and baggy pants.



Maybe I am oblivious, but I don't think I've suffered any age-based discrimination.

56 is someone born 1968, hardly old at all. Normal retirement age non government is 65-67 so we still have people at work from 1957-and 1959.

Someone who is 56 today they are set to retire in 2035 if they stay to 67 which is the regular retirement date for SS

Have you read this thread? We are talking about people staying employed in professional corporate jobs past their 50s. Yes, most people haven't planned to retire before retirement age of 67, but you have to remained employed -- what happens is many are laid off in their 50s, and cobble together income/jobs from whatever is willing to hire them, ie not corporate professionals, with a significant drop in pay and benefits.

Curious about the 56 PP, not sure what is semi-tech and what role? For instance, general counsel at a tech firm generally is pretty immune from ageism. Same with CTO etc. That's been said over and over, if you make it to leardership/executive level you have some protection. If you are staff personel, its much more challenging.

At the age of 55 I got a really big IT related job and at the age of 58 got a decent IT job. However, like Arron Rodgers and Tom Brady time is catching up to me. You can look 10 years younger not 20 years younger so it is what it is. But you have to look younger, be full of energy, be relentless in your job hunt and stay current and you can find jobs up to 60. [/quote

NP. why’d you get a new job at 58? And the problem obviously is that most people still need/want to work after 60

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a 56 guy and got hired by a semi-tech company 2 years ago with no issues. I do consulting on the side, and am fully ready to ramp it up to full time if I get canned for any reason.

Also, I do go to the gym (have weighed the same since I was 22) and make an effort to dress NOT like I am still wearing vintage 90s dress shirts and baggy pants.

Maybe I am oblivious, but I don't think I've suffered any age-based discrimination.

56 is someone born 1968, hardly old at all. Normal retirement age non government is 65-67 so we still have people at work from 1957-and 1959.

Someone who is 56 today they are set to retire in 2035 if they stay to 67 which is the regular retirement date for SS

Have you read this thread? We are talking about people staying employed in professional corporate jobs past their 50s. Yes, most people haven't planned to retire before retirement age of 67, but you have to remained employed -- what happens is many are laid off in their 50s, and cobble together income/jobs from whatever is willing to hire them, ie not corporate professionals, with a significant drop in pay and benefits.

Curious about the 56 PP, not sure what is semi-tech and what role? For instance, general counsel at a tech firm generally is pretty immune from ageism. Same with CTO etc. That's been said over and over, if you make it to leardership/executive level you have some protection. If you are staff personel, its much more challenging.

At the age of 55 I got a really big IT related job and at the age of 58 got a decent IT job. However, like Arron Rodgers and Tom Brady time is catching up to me. You can look 10 years younger not 20 years younger so it is what it is. But you have to look younger, be full of energy, be relentless in your job hunt and stay current and you can find jobs up to 60.

What industry and role?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a 56 guy and got hired by a semi-tech company 2 years ago with no issues. I do consulting on the side, and am fully ready to ramp it up to full time if I get canned for any reason.

Also, I do go to the gym (have weighed the same since I was 22) and make an effort to dress NOT like I am still wearing vintage 90s dress shirts and baggy pants.

Maybe I am oblivious, but I don't think I've suffered any age-based discrimination.

By semi-tech, do you mean govt/DOD IT services?

Logistics and supply chain management, but in an area that provides it only to fed customers. So kind of a backwater part of the company. I work on federal pricing, contracts, market research and internal compliance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a 56 guy and got hired by a semi-tech company 2 years ago with no issues. I do consulting on the side, and am fully ready to ramp it up to full time if I get canned for any reason.

Also, I do go to the gym (have weighed the same since I was 22) and make an effort to dress NOT like I am still wearing vintage 90s dress shirts and baggy pants.

Maybe I am oblivious, but I don't think I've suffered any age-based discrimination.

By semi-tech, do you mean govt/DOD IT services?

Logistics and supply chain management, but in an area that provides it only to fed customers. So kind of a backwater part of the company. I work on federal pricing, contracts, market research and internal compliance.

Yeah most things fed adjacent are not ageist. In fact contracting favors more experienced personnel when bidding.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a 56 guy and got hired by a semi-tech company 2 years ago with no issues. I do consulting on the side, and am fully ready to ramp it up to full time if I get canned for any reason.

Also, I do go to the gym (have weighed the same since I was 22) and make an effort to dress NOT like I am still wearing vintage 90s dress shirts and baggy pants.

Maybe I am oblivious, but I don't think I've suffered any age-based discrimination.

By semi-tech, do you mean govt/DOD IT services?

Logistics and supply chain management, but in an area that provides it only to fed customers. So kind of a backwater part of the company. I work on federal pricing, contracts, market research and internal compliance.

Interesting that you describe that as semi-tech but if your customer is mostly the gov, I would have called it Fed contracting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a 56 guy and got hired by a semi-tech company 2 years ago with no issues. I do consulting on the side, and am fully ready to ramp it up to full time if I get canned for any reason.

Also, I do go to the gym (have weighed the same since I was 22) and make an effort to dress NOT like I am still wearing vintage 90s dress shirts and baggy pants.

Maybe I am oblivious, but I don't think I've suffered any age-based discrimination.

56 is someone born 1968, hardly old at all. Normal retirement age non government is 65-67 so we still have people at work from 1957-and 1959.

Someone who is 56 today they are set to retire in 2035 if they stay to 67 which is the regular retirement date for SS

Have you read this thread? We are talking about people staying employed in professional corporate jobs past their 50s. Yes, most people haven't planned to retire before retirement age of 67, but you have to remained employed -- what happens is many are laid off in their 50s, and cobble together income/jobs from whatever is willing to hire them, ie not corporate professionals, with a significant drop in pay and benefits.

Curious about the 56 PP, not sure what is semi-tech and what role? For instance, general counsel at a tech firm generally is pretty immune from ageism. Same with CTO etc. That's been said over and over, if you make it to leardership/executive level you have some protection. If you are staff personel, its much more challenging.

At the age of 55 I got a really big IT related job and at the age of 58 got a decent IT job. However, like Arron Rodgers and Tom Brady time is catching up to me. You can look 10 years younger not 20 years younger so it is what it is. But you have to look younger, be full of energy, be relentless in your job hunt and stay current and you can find jobs up to 60.

What industry and role?

I did a AWS Cloud implementation at prior job so helped my get job at 55. I did a start up that needed me to set everything up at 58.

However, they need you as you age to do your one thing, they pay you well and once done toss you.

The one billion AWS implementation two months post live canned.

[Anonymous]

To the semi-tech pp above, I have no doubt that keeping fit helped immensely. Not only do people look younger, they look more disciplined and energetic.

I’m not speaking from personal experience; I could stand to get in the gym.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To the semi-tech pp above, I have no doubt that keeping fit helped immensely. Not only do people look younger, they look more disciplined and energetic.

I’m not speaking from personal experience; I could stand to get in the gym.

I think more importantly their customer was the government, which actually prefers seasoned veterans over wunderkinds.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To the semi-tech pp above, I have no doubt that keeping fit helped immensely. Not only do people look younger, they look more disciplined and energetic.

I’m not speaking from personal experience; I could stand to get in the gym.

I think more importantly their customer was the government, which actually prefers seasoned veterans over wunderkinds.

The 56 YO PP here. Yeah, I agree that it being a federal government facing position helps. It just happens to be the area I've worked in for a long time, so it definitely was not part of a plan. It's also distinctly uncool, so it could also be that few younger people apply to work in the federal sales and contracts areas, so that tends to limit the younger competition.