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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Business technology has not changed in 10 years.

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OMG - if the business technology you're using hasn't significantly changed in the last 10 years... I hate to break the news, you are seriously outdated.

I see it with my mid-40s/early 50s coworkers. Unwilling to start using collaborative features of Microsoft Office, never heard of something like Chili Piper/Calendly/Bookings, can't adjust to communication norms over Slack or Teams, run super disengaging virtual meetings, can't comprehend how to build team culture remotely, struggle to understand short communication forms like Twitter or short-form video, don't understand how to use data analytics and dashboards available to them in their existing tools. Massive under-utilization of technology. And they think they are with it because they know how to make something a PDF and didn't forget to attach it to the email.

If you're still using technology largely the same way you were 10 years ago, and if you still run most of your communication through email - you are equivalent of the people in the late 90s/early 2000s who refused to give up fax or asked their assistant to print out emails for them. [/quote]

You’re an ageist.

I’m 42, and guess what….you’ll be in the same age bracket soon. Think about how you talk about people, and then stop looking at age. I work in IT and I know how to use Business Technology. Your problem is not with their skillset. It’s with yours. You don’t know how to work in a team with a diverse skillset. Figure out how other people communicate and work within their skills, and then teach them how to use yours from their vantage point. Complaining people don’t do things your way is just arrogant. [/quote]

My find it funny how young people think technology is a plus for work and building teams. I work in IT in a very large FinTech. I have worked in FinTechs around 15 years in a senior management role.

I would never say this at work but I sent my first email
At 34. Got first cell phone at 43. Bought my first home computer at 50. Heck I got voicemail at work not till 35.

I have extremely deep product knowledge, strong at leading teams. I had to do all meetings in person. Other choices I do inter office mail and we used buck slips. I had a pencil, a few note pads, calculator and dumb terminals. With no internet I had to know it or have connections at work or in the industry to get the info. I even went to library after work.

Today I can run know all IT.  But I tell you when you wrote a 20 page term paper with footnotes on a typewriter with no internet. Today I throw out trash. Almost like crap. Untested models, queries I threw together, half ass teams meetings and jira or slack communications to disengaged folks trying to build a system.

I literally help build a System 30 years ago through interviews with dozens of clerks with pen and paper and communication business requirements. Today I don’t do that no one does.

Love to see anyone under 40 last a day in the punch card days. Hate to tell you since windows 95 and windows explorer came out nothing has really changed at work. Pre email/internet/Microsoft word/excel was totally different. And stress much higher. Imagine mailing a million hard copies of a document with an error and having to reprint a million copies and remail? Today you just update webpage

I think if older play  with your strengths. In OP case SAHM mom is a real super hard job. Own it. [/quote]

And this is why ageism exists. They are ignorant of what is even available/possible and then say stupid shit like technology hasn't changed since Windows 95.

Being a luddite is not an asset in the job market. It is a good thing you are nearing social security age because your attitude is not realistic and your beliefs aren't accurate. [/quote]

DP.  Okay I propose a challenge.  A young Tableu dashboard master is assigned to program a stack of punch cards to print "Hello World".  An older worker, who was master punchcard programmer needs to do the same in Tableu.  Who will win?[/quote]

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