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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m keenly aware of ageism - and how it intersects with misogyny -in the workplace.  I’m 38.  I’m a manager working with executives and plan to persistently pursue the executive level, where I expect I can be - and will have the stamina to maintain - until I’m 55 or so.  Pre-corporate I was a yoga teacher, and plan to open a studio a year or two after retirement from corporate, but frankly my goal is to make as much money as possible as quickly as possible so I don’t have to worry (as much) about the future.

It’s also helpful that my DH is a senior IC with a very niche tech skill and will always have employment - he makes in the lower 200s and might top out around 300.  Which is good.  But I want to make really, really big money.  As I see it, 10-15 years of balls to the wall work is worth being able to finance college, retirement, down payments for kids etc.  (No family money, no inheritance.)

All of that said, it is weird and f***ed up how prevalent ageism is in America and how little we do to protect ourselves; how much power we cede to “the man.”  Maybe with the agitation and machinations of Gen Z - who literally could NOT care less - these crappy workplace practices will change.  But I am not too optimistic.

I am in great health, too, as is my husband, and our grandparents and great-grandparents live(d) into their 90s/early 100s.  That’s a lot of years to finance![/quote]

Fact of Life the US Corporate world is no different that the life of a basketball player. Everyone places basketball up to middle school, then you have to make JV team some dont make it, then you have to make varsity, some dont make it, then you have to make a college team most dont make it then you have to make NBA extremely few make it. Once you make NBA by 35 you are most likely retired. Only best of best make it past 35. The NBA is a much speeded up version of work force.

But 20-30 is middle school, 30-35 is JV, 35-45 is college ball, 45-55 is NBA and 55 plus is where the very very best players are still in the game.

It is a pyramid approach where very few at the top. There are no 50 year old junior auditors in BIG, there are no Junior Investment bankers at 40, you have to keep moving up and that is hard. As less and less space at the top and once up there you can get pushed out and super hard.

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