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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are tons of jobs for over 50 and even over 60 people that pay well and can get hired.

What you see is people who sit in their cube, learn nothing new, become a SME very specialized to that one business stay at a job a long time and are paid very well. Then at 55 let go.

Networking, going to conferences, being active on LinkedIn, keeping up on latest new hot topics seems pointless when you have a secure job at 54 you plan on staying at to 65. But if rug pulled out from under you suddenly you are stuck. I see it again and again.

There is a movie with Kurt Russel that takes place in the Artic Circle in Winter. They escape their building from a large massive fire and 
standing our front. Someone asks Kurt now that we don't have a building now what? Kurt holds his hands out towards warm fire and goes we are nice and toasty for now we will figure it out later. The camera goes back and shows them in massive Ice Block with snow falling and fire slowly burning out.

Getting laid off with severance at 55 is same feeling. The checks keep coming a few months but like the Fire they eventually stops and you are left out in the cold unless you planned ahead.          [/quote]

I’m sorry, if you were staying in the same role and going to conferences and learning new things, that will be no protection from ageism and being laid off. The only way to inoculate against ageism is due advance to leadership and executive levels. Anything else is wasting your time. Just because you learn the skill or fad technology does not make you in any way more marketable at 50. That’s a fantasy sold online learning course companies.

Are you talking about the Thing when you reference the burning building in the Arctic?  Good movie and it captures the fatalism of being an older employee, but just like them they really was no protection or way to save yourself.  Like the alien, ageism is too strong for any individual to fight[/quote]

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