People like skerzz are “professionals” so they don’t have to compete for jobs with the “problem children” and so don’t have a clue about being rejected in favor of them. I do not have a college degree but possess an ABA-approved paralegal certificate from USD in Business litigation. Our classes were “500-level” classes and I have 33 years experience in the field. The goth chick with the iphone appendage that I described here (or the applicant with the white shirt with black bra peeking out from it) IS my competition today for jobs …. especially if she/he speaks fluent Spanish! (I just borrowed some Rosetta Stone SW and will endeavor to brush up as I have taken ten years worth of Spanish classes, lol.) The bottom line is that employers want young employees. They don’t care what they have to go through with them day-to-day but they want young and I accepted that fact ten years ago.
I’m actually not bitter. I am better off as an “independent contractor.” I’m just really happy that my kids received and are pursuing viable college degrees in fields that are in demand :=)[/quote]
Skerzz probably be better to let BG go. She’s an old boomer who doesn’t want to understand how Millenials think and just likes to talk about how she did things in the good old days. I run into old people like her all the time and would normally not spend the time of day talking to people like her. There are many times I have tried to explain how Millenials are all about the bottom line, and age nor color, or religion has anything to do with it. I try and tell her that Millenials are all about results, ROI’s and bottom lines but she doesn’t get it. I’m not sure what it is…probably just plain ignorance. Either way, she seems to want to spin things so she can throw another story from her life and how her generation is so great.
BG, not sure why you didn’t get the job, nor what you applied for, but I’m sure there was a very good reason other than age. But if you feel that is the reason to help you sleep better than go for it! Personally, our generation doesn’t care about how you look or how you dress or any of that like your generation may have. Maybe in the position you were applying for it really didn’t matter. Maybe she dressed that way but she just graduated from Harvard Law at the top of her class. Maybe you were asking for too much…so much so that it was not even a break-even proposition. There are so many variables that are at play here that your points are not worth discussing.
