I’m not going lie to you. Most people I know from conducting business in the field of employment and training—not all of course—but most people who are laid off—are over 50. It is so devastating for this population because not only do they have to cope with the financial and social aspects of unemployment, they have the added burden of fearing that they will never recoup for their elder years. Their jobs are gone and they believe they personally are finished, washed up, done, caput.

Somewhere in the dungeon of lost jobs lies the demon of ageism. Ageism is the work world’s fear, prejudice and shunning of older working people. Worse yet is the buying into it by the very people being victimized by this thinking. It’s the same old jazz about workplace discrimination against older workers.

I’m sick of it! Do you hear me? Fed up!

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