Age Discrimination

[jtuck004]

3. Yeah, I thought about becoming a motivational speaker, but I have a nasty moral streak

that might interfere.

I had a college and career path in networks, did well and got paid well, but left to help an inlaw for 10 years, and then when I turned 59 it all came apart. It's a bit of a struggle and the next few years are going to be perilous, but it beats not having anything.

I did play the resume game for quite a while, built my own lab and got a couple of clients, got current on some things, but since the big growth in jobs is in fast food and home care, the need for all this isn't what it could be. So I decided to move more toward finding something to make, and sell.

I know and talk to people who were in the same realm and they are still sending in resumes, paying $40K to that private sort of IT school, burning assets in expectation that the past will return. I wish them luck, but at some point you need to ask whether you are getting a good return for spending what you have left, eh?

I hate losing the work I did on this house, adding the addition. If we do. But that's not the worst thing in the world.