Re: Wall Street Journal on IT career craze



On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Russell.Martin@xxxxxxx wrote:

Mike T. wrote:
You're not kidding. I went back to college at the age of 36 after working in
non-technical fields (construction, insurance sales, retail). I graduated
MCL in math/CS three months before my 40th birthday. I found it impossible
to even get so much as an interview.

But there's a vast shortage of people with your knowledge,
just ask those government officials who keep producing
reports on the subject. ;-)

Russell are you one of those anti-government right wingers? How come I ask this? You're bashing the government again. Don't you know that all of industry is _also_ blaring away with that "shortage shouting"? ;-)

Doesn't it occur to you that the reason the government is putting out all this propaganda is: i) for the granting agencies to keep getting their boodle funds (!), and ii) the govt officials have caved in to industry lobbying? ;-) Don't you know its all industry's fault? And, those greedy-selfish, overpaid, overpampered, over priviledged CEOs?

Right, ;-) ?????


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I also moved to Germany (for family reasons). THAT only made things worse,
since age discrimination is legal and systematic. In the requirements for
one job after another is maximum age. You can bet the ranch that that
maximum age is significantly < 40.

Bitter? Damn straight I am.

Mike

I'm truly sorry to hear of your situation.

Cheers,
Russell


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