Age Discrimination

* Well, I know I’ve finally arrived at “old age.” I can’t find a job in the area where I live because I’m too old. I think it is pretty sad when a person not only wants to work but needs to work and is not hired because she is 40-plus years old.

I walk into different offices, look around, see basically what the average age is and I can tell whether I will get an interview or not. The look that comes across the faces of the employees whom I ask for a job application is something else. Polite they are, but they can’t mask the look on their faces as it says “you are wasting your time.”

One consolation I have is that 80% of these people will someday be in my shoes, and they will be on the same side of the desk that I am on right now. So I say, be prepared!

DARLENE NELSON

Big Bear City