Day 2 into a temp assignment, and the agency told me the client asked that I don't return. The client claimed I had low tech skills simply because I got locked out of my laptop and when I tried to change the password, the computer wouldn't accept my new password no matter how complex I tried to make it. I'm wondering if the real reason is because of my age. I'm over 65 and the person training me was in their 30s and they kept making a point of how I "looked good" for my age!

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Don’t tell people your age…

Keep it to yourself.
It’s none of their business.

I owned the anti-aging and wellness clinics and that’s what I did for years is make people look younger and it’s worth it.

But you have to learn how to do it so to speak…

But don’t let anybody put you down
for your age,..
don’t share your age with everybody
go back to the ‘I love Lucy’ days…

where she would absolutely kill before she would share her age with anybody…
Not a bad idea ….
the not sharing your age part that is … lol

one thing I learned from my mother-in-law a long time ago …
everybody thought she was way younger than she was and a part of that ‘magic’ was she dressed younger…

Not that you don’t want to be you…
but you don’t have to be an old you!!

And it was wrong of whatever person came down on you like there was something wrong with you in a situation like that because the only thing more temperamental than Computers…

Are people who think they know at all?

Buckle up … take the bull by the horns
and ignore the McNasty’s!!! 👹

They’re all gonna end up being replaced by AI …
anyway then we’ll see who they’re gonna complain to …. a robot lol 😂 

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I agree, I had a recruiter tell me to take the year that I graduated from a trade school for being a secretary. Actually, she told me to take that off completely.

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Your age might’ve worked against you. If you were working with somebody in their 30s, they might have seen the y with your password as a sign You’re too old for the role. People see what they want to see based on their personal biases.

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