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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We just interviewed a 50ish woman for a position that currently is filled by people in their 20’s.  She was stressing out big time about how to use the computer software, her current job isn’t teaching her etc.  This is why we are reluctant to hire older employees.  She could be good at her healthcare job but can’t handle the basic computer skills.[/quote]

And this is funny because at my agency, the majority of the really good cybersecurity, system and network engineers are late 40's on up.  These are people who have 20+ years of system, IT and security experience.  In our area, the Tier 1 and Tier 2 people are frequently the younger ones, but the Tier 3 folks who do a lot of the design work or fix problems that the Tier 1 and Tier 2 people can't, are all the senior staff with many years of experience.

And we are the people that folks come to when they don't know how to do things on their computers.  Yes, I am one of them.  I've been a system administrator for over 30 years and have worked in IT security for about 15 years of those years.  There are many others like me in their 50's that are the go to senior IT folks in our agency.[/quote]
Isn't that also because some of the government agencies' software is kind of old and established?

I'm old enough to remember the Y2k bug, and how many organizations had to bring back the old timers to backport old code written in pascal.[/quote]

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