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Re:After 48, you’re less likely to get jobs in Silicon Valle... by SamReidHughes on Sunday July 29, 2018 @11:46PM (#17641899)
Why don't you start a software company that takes advantage of this market inefficiency by hiring people over 40? Why don't these unhirable 40-somethings band together and start a consulting agency?
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Re:After 48, you’re less likely to get jobs in Silicon Valle... by mikelevins on Monday July 30, 2018 @08:02AM (#17643821)
You mean, respond to clandestine illegal age discrimination by openly advertising illegal age discrimination?
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Re:After 48, you’re less likely to get jobs in Silicon Valle... by SamReidHughes on Monday July 30, 2018 @03:06PM (#17647057)
Legal age discrimination, in fact. Or you could not discriminate. You'll have no problem slurping up all these high quality 40-50-somethings on the job market, right?
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Re:After 48, you’re less likely to get jobs in Silicon Valle... by mikelevins on Monday July 30, 2018 @03:21PM (#17647180)
Forgive my ignorance; it's legal in the US to discriminate on the basis of age as long as you're preferring candidates older than a given age, rather than younger?
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Re:After 48, you’re less likely to get jobs in Silicon Valle... by SamReidHughes on Monday July 30, 2018 @04:11PM (#17647575)
As long as you aren't discriminating against people over 40.
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Re:After 48, you’re less likely to get jobs in Silicon Valle... by mikelevins on Monday July 30, 2018 @04:35PM (#17647778)
I'll have to look into it. I'm an old fart myself, mostly self-employed since my mid 40s (because it suddenly got way harder to get hired as an employee), and I know a bunch of other old farts who are smart and have good skills.

Thanks for the idea.

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Re:After 48, you’re less likely to get jobs in Silicon Valle... by skinnymuch on Monday July 30, 2018 @12:26PM (#17645646)
Because that’s illegal?
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Re:After 48, you’re less likely to get jobs in Silicon Valle... by SamReidHughes on Monday July 30, 2018 @03:05PM (#17647048)
Age discrimination is illegal only in one direction in America (federally, at least).
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