Reply #38: I used to get interviews back in 2006

[blues90]

But I never got one job I applied for and then I called back I found thay had many applications . I was 57 at the time.

Many jobs required back ground checks and I have no crime history and credit checks and I have no credit history and then there are those gaps since 2004 one a year long.

I tried every sort of job I knew I could do and even went to employment agencies and I was the first one out the door yet I never got one call back.

I don;t care what anyone says , if you are near 60 and the people interviewing you are half that age they want people close to their own age as co- workers and there is nothing you can do about it , there is no recourse if they don't hire you and age discrimination , well hell you would have an easier time trying to prove gravity does not exist.

No one gives a damn and there are really no jobs to be had that I can find . I lloked at ford motor dealerships on-line and found 8 jobs spread across the USA and not one near where I live. besides the auto industry is failing.

I tried every single customer service job out there on every web based job site and there is nothing out there , many know all of them by now.

I have worked from 1966 to 2004 without a gap .

Who really cares if you become just one more statistic and out of luck and on the street and at 60 it's even more horrifying .

I have been in this area since 1981 and every reference and contact I had is now retired or dead or gone away so there goes past references.

To re-train my mind shuts down because there is no way to afford this and nothing I can think of to re-train for . I even went to vocational rehabe because they seemed to say there were jobs , well you see a counseler and then a outsorced dept that shows you how to fill out an app and search the internet , well gee's I already know how to do that and they don't have job contacts.

So what is one to do , learn to be an urban outdoors man or pitch a tent in a tent city or leap to ones death and just count it as well I made it this far and now it's over I guess I was lucky to manage that this long.

No one gives a damn and never did unless it affects them then it suddely matters.

What we need are communes that work and the hell with this capitalistic swill that exists out there where position and money are all that mean anything or some degree hanging by yellow old paper that is now obsolete. Use our old skills and make something happen that does not depend on the system or die trying.