Re: Aging out was RE: job-hunt weirdness

Subject: Re: Aging out was RE: job-hunt weirdness
From: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:07:15 -0700

I haven't seen it. Some companies like to hire programmers fresh out
of school, but an inexperienced technical writer is so useless that
the phrase is virtually a non sequitur. The more experience you have,
the more valuable you are, so long as you keep your skills current.

When I started at my last job, I was around 50 and the docs manager
who hired me was around 30. When I was manager, I hired a guy about my
age--he was the best candidate. I went to a job interview a couple of
months ago where the docs manager looked to be 20-something but most
of the writers I met with were around my age.

Age discrimination is illegal in the US, by the way. Any comment about
someone being "too old" or so on invites a lawsuit.

http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/age.html
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References:
Re: job-hunt weirdness: From: Erik Hare
RE: job-hunt weirdness: From: Dana Worley
Re: job-hunt weirdness: From: Peter Neilson
Re: job-hunt weirdness: From: Dana Worley
RE: job-hunt weirdness: From: McLauchlan, Kevin
Aging out was RE: job-hunt weirdness: From: Sarah Stegall

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