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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]51 is not even that old. And if you're at practices nonstop- walk the track while the kids practice. That's what all the moms are doing. I like to listen to audio books while I do so.

Definitely agree on skincare, clothes, hair cut. Do you have a wife or a female friend who could advise?

220k is a pretty high salary. A TON of feds were just laid off in this area and their salaries are more like 100-160k, so you have a lot of competition for wages. They likely have the same skills or degrees too. [/quote]

Figure out where people older than you are still working.

Look up people you went to school with on LinkedIn.  High school through grad school.  See if there are any you can reach out to.

A lot of HR front end recruiters are young, personable, and dumb. And AI applicant tracking systems go for keyword matching.  Which mean newer jobs look more relevant just because of buzzwords.

Work any loose, informal "older" contacts you can.

Also don't blame yourself for societal problems like ageism.  If there was anything about the Boomers' "all about me" generational behavior that I hoped would have spillover benefits, it was a hope for reduced ageism in the workplace.  Many of the Boomers around me just wouldn't quit despite having defined benefit pensions that younger workers don't have. Unfortunately, I think Gen-X is going to have to shoulder this task too.[/quote]

Hard to really gauge that. My high school classmates mostly went into the army or stayed in our region, working as pharmacists or sales in small manufacturing jobs or beverage distributors.  I came from a small poor town.

My college friends were pretty elite and much wealthier than me; most are in fact retired now or like tenured professors. Many climbed the executive track early or went into VC or banking etc.  very few went into on the ground technical work like I did, because they knew the path to real money (I thought I had found it too, since working as a contractor paid so much more than my experience growing up). [/quote]

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