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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Boomer here. Two separate jobs reached out to me last two weeks. Both large departments where none of staff which includes VPs, managers, staff with no one qualified to run area. I am almost 65. One today offered me 385k base, 400k sign on payable over 4 years in annual payments and added I also get around 100k bonus. She added if I say 4 years I clear 800k. On top of salary.

The other is a really big fintech that just merged. Two smaller depts combined into one big dept and once again no one to lead.

Some questions they wanted to know my level of board and audit committee involvements. Am I direct point of contact regulator? Is my boss directly the Board or CEO, have I led a start up as member of sr. Mgt to IPO. My level of IT, AI, Cyber, Risk Mgt.

How many regulators and firms I had senior roles in. Have you led large teams remotely, have I taken over depts and turned them around. And they seemed very interest in my success stories, such as getting licenses, managing vendor relationships, exact example how I led in times of crisis.

It was no way you could get that experience without being at senior mgt level for 20-25 years and jumping company to company, and they seemed to want brand name companies.

Hence impossible to have any of this experience without having lots of jobs, and it is hard to get jobs that level.

I may take job 400k stock sign on. Only cause I can easily work till 68-70. To get full vest. But also if it flames out old enough just retire. They most likely give some severance.

The merger one I was told the new board feels neither head of area qualified to run area to being to next level, both are in mid 50s. So I would have two heads of dept reporting to me who both wanted job . One a women  and one a man. I did that once and a hot mess.

But still shocked how younger people in 40s to 50s not prepared, I should be retired. Yet companies are data mining LinkedIn.

I think companies are lazy. Someone let me do all this things no prior experience yet in 2026 companies only want people who had done it before.

Boomers pushed out silent generation, now Gen Z will push Boomers out only cause we are leaving work force at alarming rate.

Also find it amusing I have been hopping jobs every three years since 54 and no one cares. I am getting sign on, a few bonus checks then on to next sign on. The younger folks are job hugging and I am picking up more skills. Now all at once companies love job hoppers? This would be job 13 for me if I took it.

Please someone take my job, please. 
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I agree companies are lazy. They only want to hire someone who has done similar work before. But it’s hard to get those ppl to move for 10k more.

Companies are also hypocrites. My boss hates job hoppers but expects a 30 year old to be an expert in our niche business management, a project manager, an implementation specialist and a vibe coder. No company in the world will have a junior employee rotate 4 different job functions.

At the same time I still have a lot of leg work because Gen Z looks down on managers who only manage, so that reduces my availability to support their training. And I can’t be the manager who only manages in case I get laid off I need to find a new job with those technical skills.
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