What careers have the least ageism?

[Anonymous]

Walmart Greeter.

[Anonymous]

Probably anything where experience matters and the rate of change in the industry is low. Tailor. Watch maker. Cabinet maker (carpenter). Typesetter/printer. Stuff like that.



NP here. Thanks for being an unhelpful asshole!

Why was this unhelpful? It was a correct answer to the original question.

[Anonymous]

Project Manager or Scrum Master.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Probably anything where experience matters and the rate of change in the industry is low. Tailor. Watch maker. Cabinet maker (carpenter). Typesetter/printer. Stuff like that.



NP here. Thanks for being an unhelpful asshole!

Why was this unhelpful? It was a correct answer to the original question.

OP came here with a real question. It’s obnoxious to sarcastically suggest tailor, watchmaker, and typesetter as career paths in 2021.

[Anonymous]

OP came here with a real question. It’s obnoxious to sarcastically suggest tailor, watchmaker, and typesetter as career paths in 2021.

But it wasn't sarcastic. Those are real jobs that employ real people. Do you think that you are above doing those jobs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

OP came here with a real question. It’s obnoxious to sarcastically suggest tailor, watchmaker, and typesetter as career paths in 2021.

But it wasn't sarcastic. Those are real jobs that employ real people. Do you think that you are above doing those jobs?

New poster here. I thought the first comment was genuine and not snarky. These are the types of craftsmanship type jobs where experience only makes you more valuable. Hard to break into mid-life though.

I work in personal finance, and it is a job where gray hair is a positive. Early in my career it was a struggle to be taken seriously by people my parents or grandparents age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

OP came here with a real question. It’s obnoxious to sarcastically suggest tailor, watchmaker, and typesetter as career paths in 2021.

But it wasn't sarcastic. Those are real jobs that employ real people. Do you think that you are above doing those jobs?

New poster here. I thought the first comment was genuine and not snarky. These are the types of craftsmanship type jobs where experience only makes you more valuable. Hard to break into mid-life though.

I work in personal finance, and it is a job where gray hair is a positive. Early in my career it was a struggle to be taken seriously by people my parents or grandparents age.

Hard to break into because they no longer exist.

[Anonymous]

Physician

[Anonymous]

Car salesman. Being older is a plus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Librarian. I got my degree many years ago and my program was at least 50% people starting a second career, and I doubt that's changed much. It's actually a field where going into it with almost any kind of experience in something else can be useful because so many libraries have special collections/branches where specific knowledge of an area is a real asset. People tend to think solely of public, and sometimes academic, libraries but a lot of large companies also have libraries and people with legal, accounting, business, medical, other backgrounds can find real niches. It's not a field to get rich in, but one can make a perfectly decent living and find a lot of job satisfaction. And my listservs are FULL of job openings.

PP, can you share what listservs are full of jobs? I'd love to take a look at see what's out there.

[Anonymous]

OP since you mentioned it, the trades. I work at the corporate office for a large construction company. We would love women in their 40s for positions operating heavy equipment. Only thing is entry-level will only bring you about $20 per hour.

Others I can think of- Real estate, office management, life insurance, elder care advocate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Walmart Greeter.

DB

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Medicine

My mother is a physician and has dealt with sexism, racism, and ageism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Medicine. Academia. Engineering (not necessarily software). Writing.

Politics and media seems to keep them for long time.

lol media is definitely NOT interested in keeping most folks around for the long haul. maybe if you're Wolf Blitzer, but at top jounro outlets VERY few people are kept around in their 50s and 60s. they don't want to pay them what they're worth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Medicine. Academia. Engineering (not necessarily software). Writing.

Oh, so very much not academia. Sure, you can be an old fart in academia without getting pushed into retirement, but only because you got hired when you were a young hotshot and received tenure when you were slightly-less young and well-published. If you want to enter academia when you're middle-aged? Best of luck.