Thursday, June 25, 2009

Very Strange Indeed

For Steve Dittmann, 55, unemployment has been surreal:
"It's like there's two worlds out there: People who are still working, who are still living the same lives they always had, and I feel like I'm on the other side of a Plexiglass wall looking in," said Dittmann, who lives in Kansas. "I know I'm not unique. It's like you can't get back into that world. It's very strange."
Age discrimination is very real especially if you are used to making a professional salary. I think we have to give up looking for regular jobs--that seems increasingly futile--and employ ourselves. That way our age, experience and wisdom become assets and not the liabilities they apparently are in the world of regular jobs.

And, by the way, if you would like to hire me, see "Do You Have A Job For Me?" at right...