Employers believe this is the age you’re too old to hire
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“A half an inch of water and you think you're going to drown, that's the way the world goes round”
―John Prine
Employers believe this is the age you’re too old to hire. This is why they’re wrong
“I was willing to risk losing a lucrative contract to make sure that the prospect did not know how old I was but I succumbed to telling the truth. Deep down, I felt that I had made a tactical error against ageism. I was right.” A survey from the nonprofit Transamerica Institute found that more than a third (35%) of employers thought that someone 58 years old was “too old” to hire.
Aging is way more than skin deep. The catch is not the way you look, it’s about the way you act. But no matter how young you act, (especially as a woman in business), you will eventually run up against ageism at work in the form of a hiring manager or a colleague who will look for ways to find out your age.
Baby boomers bring big bucks to fastest-growing city in America: 'We're not dead yet’
"It’s like they’re at college except they don’t have to go to class and they have $3 million in the bank.”
Georgetown, Texas, is the place to be, at least if you're of a certain age. Thanks to a surge in baby boomers moving into the city just 40 miles north of Austin, it's the fastest-growing city in America. That wave of newcomers to the community dubbed by Georgetown Mayor Josh Schroeder as the "cruise ship on land” is also driving an economic boom. The town has been the top city for population growth for three straight years, according to Census Bureau data of cities with populations over 50,000, the WSJ reported. It grew 11% last year, 14% in 2022, and 11% in 2021.
Ray Dalio says Trump and Biden reflect decades of ‘horrendous leadership’ by baby boomers
‘They are so unimaginably worse than I ever could have thought possible.’
— Ray Dalio
Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio has said decades of “chronically horrendous leadership” under the postwar baby-boom generation has now reached an apex in the form of presidential candidates Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Dalio, who himself was born in New York City in 1949, said the generation of which he’s a member has overseen a decline in America that has led to “huge polarities in opportunities and living conditions” and resulted in the loss of the U.S.’s “economic, military, and moral leadership in the world.” The billionaire hedge-fund manager blamed boomers’ poor leadership for this decline, as he argued the generation — born between 1946 and 1964 — has overseen a breakdown of the American dream that was formed through the work of the Greatest Generation, who endured the Wall Street crash of 1929 and the Great Depression and went on to win World War II.
She longed to be a lover and an outlaw; she became a writer instead
Francine Prose’s memoir ‘1974’ is a portrait of a relatively brief encounter and an entire generation. The doomed romance was so brief — it lasted for just a few months in the winter of 1974 — that it might not seem like a meaty enough subject for the 77-year-old Prose, who is known for her intricately crafted, mostly fictional tales. But 1974: A Personal History is enthralling — a searching and fearless account of a misbegotten love affair as well as a wrenching elegy for the baby boom generation.
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