#boomer tries to find a job in 2025

#boomer tries to find a job in 2025

[marcosvillalobos]

I actually really appreciate the rejection emails/messages. They let me know when a prospect is out of the options list

[limeadel]

Appreciate the older people who admit times are harder than before. Shows their maturity

[LVSKY]

THIS is why America selfdestructs. The corporate contempt for the workforce, the absence of a living wage rising along with cost of living, the debt farming, the abominably expensive health care.

[metalmonkey]

I had to explain this to my wife who was lecturing my youngest to start applying for jobs. She didn't get that 90%+ of the online applications you submit will NEVER be seen by a human. Most are rejected by company software searching for key words and only forward a few for human review.

[vargrprincess]

They want resumes and cover letters for fast food, grocery stores, and restaurants. Not talking about management, just cook, stocker, and bus boy or dishwasher. It's insane.

[ardymoore]

I'm a 63 yo woman who had FAR more expendable income 40 years ago than the last 20. I bought my first house at 21 and a rental property 6 months later! I have owned 5 different houses, the first being a 1940's 2-1 cottage to a 4-2-3 in a country club gated community and a 4-5-2 pool that I paid $187, 900 for! My kids make more than I ever did and can't manage to purchase real estate. Reagan was a TROJAN HORSE who ushered in trickle down economics and exorbitant CEO pay! This is not a BYPRODUCT it's THE PLAN!

[codym]

My dad used to give me so much shit for not just walking into any given place and getting a job making $50k and moving out and owning a house after I turned 18. Then in 2022 he lost hist job and had to look for work for the first time in 20 years. It took him a year before he even got a single imterview and the only job he could get was for minimum wage as an airport wheelchair pusher. He finally stopped giving me shit for struggling to get a job and get decent pay after that

[LiquidMarvel]

I'm an ex naval officer, have a degree, over 20 years of technical and management experience, but no one is interested once they discover I'm disabled.

[astraamarante]

My sister did job applications yesterday. Remarked on how a company finally emailed her with a rejection instead of not having any contact at all. Additionally, this wasn’t mentioned in the video, but companies will constantly under hire and overwork employees, but put out ghost listings where they don’t plan to actually hire anyone to give the impression that their company is growing so they can inflate the stock market. So you won’t even be filling out real applications like half the time. Think about that.

[krisbelch]

I didn't think "retirement" and "looking for work" would be in the same sentence.

[rlh]

Someone should also explain to him that there is no “working your way up from the mailroom to the boardroom, ” and if he wants a raise, he’ll have to go through the same hunting process in a few years.

[Heliogabalos]

gasp! decades of profit optimization and the destruction of midcentury labor reforms has lead to lower pay, worse conditions, and shittier benefits - NO WAY!

[BlendedBarbieDoll]

He’s retiring and has to look for work is the first red flag that shits F’d up.

[kiraragner]

This is why I say younger generations aren’t lazy! The job market is absolutely awful and everything he said is spot on!

[TabbyQ.]

My husband is a federal employee ten years from retirement. Same job for 23 years. His department is slated to be dissolved. It makes me a little sick.

[ameliasolis]

My favorite thing is when a company you applied to YEARS ago who ghosted you is so desperate for workers they finally send a response and assume you've been waiting for them this whole time! 😂

[j.pritchard]

It's almost like they're data mining applications.

[NMQhq]

100% true. I was born in 1965 and was *never* turned down for a job I applied for, even when I applied from another state or skipped from one skill set to something completely different (personnel to proofreading to landscaping to restaurant work to teaching).
After COVID hit and I was laid off, I found that it was almost impossible to get a job--even in the fields in which I'd worked for decades. I *almost* got a job pumping gas--but I was edged out by someone younger.
BTW, I have a Master's degree in education.

[reyesI]

“Hours are awful.” This is the one thing that drives me absolutely crazy. Damn near every job posting has “Must be willing to work evenings, nights, weekends, and/or holidays.” I’m going on 6yrs since I’ve had weekends off. I went a while being able to work a day shift but recently got moved back to graveyard shift. It seems like jobs that are 9-5, Mon-Fri are unicorns nowadays.

[Barsoom]

My dad didn’t understand either. So I made a bet with him. I’d give him $500 if he could get a job in 2 weeks. He couldn’t use anyone he knew to give him a job and had to do applications like anyone else. Y’all he didn’t get a single interview, he was frustrated that when he tried to apply in person no one would let him, he didn’t trust the online process and what was being used didn’t make sense and was dumb paperwork, companies had unrealistic expectations for the job or were paying well below what his job should pay. Afterwords he told me that the world is different now and it’s sad no one talks about how bad the hiring process is. We had an honest productive conversation about why there’s a problem with getting jobs and companies having a hard time with getting employees