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It’s funny how information tends to come in waves.  Recently, I came across two articles that had similar themes about different victims.  The first was the notion that engineers that are over 35 are essentially unemployable.  The opinion piece from CNN discusses how “older” workers are perceived as too expensive to hire.  It also discusses how the point of mass layoffs is to eliminate the older, more expensive workers and foist more work on less people.  Fluxor has discussed the reality of this situation in many of his posts. Shortly before this article came out, another one showed up on Bloomberg.  This one had the age of unemployability as 40, but around the same ballpark. All of this has been discussed often on EngineerBlogs.  However, what brought this to mind was an article I came across a few weeks ago.  This one talked about the other end of the employment […]