This cartoon from the 3rd August 2009 New Yorker strikes me as very funny and very real.
When I was job-hunting (recently, in my 50s) I felt young, my ideas were young, but my gray hair was certainly 'not young'. I believe my career accomplishments were energetic, innovative, and geared toward techno-enabled solutions.
But there seemed to be a bias toward someone "like me", i.e. the interviewee being older than the interviewer, that roused suspicions as to my integrity or my intentions. I was seeking to "dial-down" my responsibilities, rather than perpetuating upward career trajectory. Seeking more simplicity in my life may have been viewed as subversive and counter-intuitive.
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