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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I started to worry about ageism at 40 and saved 50% or more of my salary over many years. [/quote]

40 isn’t that terrible. I am not actively looking but hiring managers and recruiters are still pinging me regularly. Don’t go to an industry with a lot of young people like tech or gaming/leisure.[/quote]

No one was talking about ageism when I started working at 25, and my family was all govt workers so it was a foreign concept to me. [/quote]

I think ageism has become a thing since tech took off (not to mention the huge growth of the stock market) and the big F100 had to start competing. So, long term jobs started getting phased out to keep the workforce young and (hopefully) hungry.[/quote]

We had software development before tech took off. The social media tech is really a product for young people which made sense for young people to design and market. 
Same with gaming and leisure, young people are spending money on in game currency and skins, who is better at designing them than young designers? 
Other than that, old people can do the jobs just fine in: finance, manufacturing, logistics, medicine, education, industrials, chemicals etc… 
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Agree with you on medicine and education, but there aren’t any junior bankers in finance who are 50 — you have to advance to stay in later years. Industrials lay off middle age workers all the time and swap in young line workers and engineers willing to work longer hours for the same or less pay. [/quote]

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