hireing people over 50

Why does the market place avoid hiring people with EXPERIENCE. We could be mentors to the younger less experienced. There would be a lot more that I could add but won't.

Medical insurance costs more for people over the age of 50. The "rich" corporations do not want to pay the higher premiums for people over 50. It is a cost saving measure so the big boys can get bigger bonuses.

That's only one of the reasons.

dgp in Dallas, Texas said: Why does the market place avoid hiring people with EXPERIENCE. We could be mentors to the younger less experienced. There would be a lot more that I could add but won't.

I now tell them that I am over 50 before I go to an interview. I went to PHX for an interview for a PM. and the guy interviewing me was afaid that I would take his job. He was about 30. I have that much experience [28yrs]. He made sure that I could not talk to the owner. No wonder we are going to _ell in a hand basket,skipping down the road.

Ethics my friend ETHICS. Non existant today. You are right. There is no enforcement for the laws and they (THE HAVES) just don't care about anybody but themsselves. I call them the me first!

Now you possibly won't like to hear this, but before you get too upset, notice my screen name.. I am well over 50 years old.

Remember that we were all once a part of that young workforce. If the situation was such that you couldn't get hired because so many older people were taking your job, you'd be pretty upset too. Actually, the situation is that such is about to happen. There are simply a lot more older workers these days than young ones and the young ones are increasingly getting more and more competition from us for their jobs. How can they compete against 20 years of experience?

This does not change the fact that companies don't want to pay twice the salary for the same work that a young person is willing to accept. The only way to get a job when you are getting older is to accept the going rate. It has always been this way.

There have always been fewer managers than hands-on workers and managers make more money. When you get older, you either got to be at the management level or you got to accept the "worker" pay rates. If you stay at the worker level you will eventually be making so much money from seniority and reaching your salary limits that you cannot go any higher.

In a way, when you change jobs, you basically should be almost be prepared to see it as an entry level position as you ARE just entering the company. Right now, you are lucky to get in as a "seasoned" employee, but that is and has always been at the "mid level" of the pay scale.

When you get as old as I am, you are thankful to get employed at all, but don't despair. Turn that experience into your own company and instead of trying to get employed by a company - COMPETE WITH THEM! (and hire young, healthy workers at low salaries of course). :)

What wisdom you show. Would you have a low paying position for anny one like you?

dp in Dallas, Texas said: What wisdom you show. Would you have a low paying position for anny one like you?

If I were hiring I would certainly choose a more experienced worker over a younger one, but at the same pay rate. Why pay a young person the same rate when I could get a person with twice the experience?

The situation is this, as I see it.. older people are used to making more money because of their experience. Today, experience is still as desired as it always has been, but cost of it is what matters even more.

If (for example) I wanted to have a fantastic realty business, I could consider hiring Donald Trump as an employee, but could I convince him to work for me? Could I afford to have him here? Probably not.

Conversely and on a smaller scale, if you are a highly experienced worker in a particular field who knows the business inside and out, why work for someone else? Start your own company and hire people who can do the parts you may not be familiar with, like advertising or bringing in venture capital, etc.

I would like to add this.. Typically, people will think that employment is based on going to school (grammar and high school and college) and then going out and getting a job in their chosen profession and be set for life. It doesn't end there.

The American Dream as it were, is a matter of growing and learning and producing constantly. Stagnating is disaster. When you reach the age of 40, you are suppose to have either moved into management or started your own company.

Perhaps one time you could get a job in the same profession your father had and survive until you retired but that era has literally gone with the wind.

Just as you once grew to the point where you became a parent instead of a child, the same applies to business. At middle age or older, you are the new face of business. You can't expect the world to give you a living as it were when it is now YOU who are that "world."

At least I can spell "anyone".

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