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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm in the same boat.  You kind of have to think outside the box. Society wants to make 50 year old women believe they are worthless but you have to sort of elevate your own status and think of all your skills as counting for something. What are you good at? Since you have a background in sociology, could you become a social worker? At least then your education would count for something. If you switch careers it will make your degree seem worthless. The hard part is getting references. The school systems lower the bar so you don't need as many references or can use a personal reference. It might help to get your foot in a door, even if it's like a month long Amazon warehouse job or a school instructional assistant. Then you can at least put something recent on a resume and switch to something better. There are also work from home jobs like in customer service but you might need a year of retail experience. You can also try part time clerical jobs. Older women sometimes just start their own business, like you could teach teens to drive or start a maid service.  You could try freelancing or the gig economy or find a caretaking job on care.com. I know at our age we've been to school, done that, don't feel like going back again.  Have you tried career counseling?[/quote]

If you have not worked for the last 20 years, why do you deserve a career suddenly. You took a risk staying home…it did not work. I worked the entire time and had kids. Too risky not to. At 50, man or woman, if you have not been employed for 20 years…or even 10…sorry, you are pretty much worthless for employment. [/quote]
Someone who hasn’t worked in 20 years isn’t a threat to your career. Why are you so opposed of someone applying for job if they haven’t worked in 20 years? Are you also unwilling to hire recent college grads? They haven’t worked in 20 years.

It’s to the benefit of society that OP finds an entry-level role and builds a nest egg for her future.[/quote]

This is an obtuse comparison. The new grad has more runway than a 50yo.[/quote]

Exactly [/quote]

50 year olds can bring a lot of life experience to the job. They can learn fast. Staying at home with managing multiple kids means you develop good organisational and multi tasking skills. We have hired a couple of stay at home moms with good success.
They are independent and need a lot less guidance and managing than 22 year olds. Their communication skills and ability to handle stress is also much better [/quote]

NP. Plus they can probably write well and they’re not afraid of phone calls.[/quote]

Lol Yes!   But truthfully the 50 year olds I know have struggled with the computer programs in most modern jobs.  If you haven’t used word, excel, or web based apps in 50 years they are heavy in almost any job.  I would start taking tech classes with your local library first.[/quote]

Did you seriously just suggest 50 year olds have not used computers in 50 years?? 😂😂 Do you think the newborns 50 years ago were using computers upon exiting their mother’s womb and then stopped??

😂😂

Personal computers were only getting started in 1974 and mainframes that filled a whole room were more common.

But I’m just a dumb person in their 50s who programmed websites back in the day using hand coded HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and created revenue projections with Excel, so what do I know?

I’m sure what you create with Claude, Perplexity, or ChatGPT is much better, pumpkin.

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