And, starting Jan 1. People on Medicaid are going to be required to have a job to keep Medicaid. They can also volunteer or enroll in classes.
Very few will be able to do this, not because they won't, but because no one will hire them, regardless of skills. Volunteer opportunities are few in some communities, and classes are expensive.
More old people will die because of this, but of course, NOT the old people who passed the Big Beautiful Bill.
Only 6 years away for me. Exciting times!
Euthanasia booths will be provided for over-50s who have failed to use their competitive years to accumulate sufficient wealth to live off passive income
"I feel invisible" hurts so much. I feel the same that I will never get the job. At least, I am privileged, but most people are not.
My colleagues think I must like my work because I've been there so long; no, it’s just that the older I get, the lower my chances of being able to find another job. No one’s going to hire a 63 year old without very specialized skills.
I don't think this is limited to over-50s...
Ageism is a plague on the workplace. I see it everywhere.
When some of your work skills are no longer relevant so they start treating you the way they treat young people just stepping into the work force. Next they'll start saying that they don't deserve a living wage (or are they already saying that?).
This is why worker solidarity is a must. They'll make you starve for their bottom line.
So… over 50s are starting to face the reality that under-50s have been dealing with since the over-50s were hunting for their first job?
Boomers centering themselves when job market is just cooked period. Plus they already had full employment and savings through their prime earning years...
"But Jimmy has two boats... I WANT TWO BOATS TOO!!!!"
If your job experience is anywhere near the digital field, look into satisfying a need by building a digital product that can earn money for you. Customers don’t care how old you are, they just want to span a needs gap with your product. Bonus if it solves a real business need, as companies can be much more open to spending obscene amounts to save a few pennies. Downside to this is you may have to rely on “spray and pray” - actively developing 10, 20, or even more ideas until either one in particular takes off or until the aggregate income across all is sufficient.
Edit: people, the digital field has the very lowest barrier to entrance other than ditch-diggers. All you need is a free, second-hand computer and a hosting package that costs a few bucks a month.
I’m not talking about firing up a 50+ person startup that makes you stupidly wealthy when it’s sold to private equity for millions. If this is what you thought, you’ve got SFB.
I’m talking about building a stable of 10-30 digital products that, over a year or three of steady visibility, each of them will eventually bring you in a few hundred to a thousand or two dollars of income per month on a consistent basis, especially if it’s a product that has a legitimate server/online component that demands an ongoing subscription.
Down that second path you have the opportunity to make a comfortable and very liveable wage by NOT putting all your eggs (effort, resources) into one bag, thereby diversifying your income in ways that doesn’t demand daily, ongoing, persistent labour.
Will it make you wealthy? Almost assuredly not. But it will put food on your table, a roof over your head, and give you a reasonably comfortable life without wearing the shackles of needing to be wildly profitable to someone else.
They need to learn how to game the AI reviewer systems. Find someone that advertises resumes and AI knowledge, even better if they are elder genz.
This is the job market today, to a large degree. I suppose there may be some amount of age bias, as with anything, but this is how things are lately.
Here is a step-wise approach to solving the employment crisis (and many others):
Elon Musk, Larry Page, Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Bernard Arnault, Jensen Huang, Steve Ballmer, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg, Amancio Ortega, Michael Dell, Carlos Slim Helú, Mukesh Ambani, Gautam Adani, Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, Julia Koch, Zhong Shanshan
Capitalism throws away the sick and the old.
Ageism has been an issue for a long time, but becomes more noticeable in the lean years. My friend was just canned on day 89, and she's 55, whip-smart and finished an MBA this year focused on machine learning and its application in finance (not a slouch or a fogey).
It's a challenge since the people who were mentored are now easier to ignore. Hope to fuck I never need a heart machine because I've seen who's gonna be writing their firmware.
Have they tried showing up in person, asking to see the manager and giving them a strong handshake?
Or is it that the job market has been fucked for a while.
Only job security is to make VP.
hundreds of applications and a handful of interviews? they're doing better than younger people, then.
There are only 2 groups of people struggling to find work in the US: 50+and under-50s.
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