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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
Welcome to the new world, you are over fifty. You should have applied, but why should they hire you? You are not going anywhere and you work for free. Maybe you could train up the new employee? Stop volunteering and look for work. It will be hard at your age.

No, I can't apply without her endorsement. I know many people there socially, and some of them might be on the committee. It would be pointless for me to apply without her encouragement and wholehearted support. The committee might (and probably would) choose someone else, and as I said, that's OK, but I felt that all the work I've done ought to have made my candidacy stand out to her.

You are right, she knows she can get my work for free, at least until I find a full time job. I told her I was not going to quit as a volunteer (because I really do believe in this organization), but I also told her I am looking for full time work. She knows my background. There may be better qualified candidates on paper, but this organization has been taking and using my ideas, spending money on things I've suggested, making structural changes to the organization that I suggested. Who could be better qualified for the job than someone who is actually doing the job, in essence, as I have?[/quote]

I know, you feel used. Look she told you what she thought of you. She does not want you as an employee. It's hard to hear, but hear it. It is time to move on. It will be hard to find a job when you are over fifty. The younger ones(yes 10 years counts ) see you as old, not computer skilled, slow, etc. And you have been out of the work force for a while. Start focusing on finding a paying job, stop the volunteering stuff. Every hour you put in there, you could be getting paid or working on getting a paying job. Start thinking about how to get paid for your ideas. [/quote]

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