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Ask Slashdot: Finding Work Over 60?
First time accepted submitter Hatfield56 writes "I've been in IT since the mid-1980s, mainly working for financial institutions. After 16 years at a company, as a programmer (Java, C#, PL/SQL, some Unix scripting) and technical lead, my job was outsourced. That was in 2009 when the job market was basically dead. After many false starts, here I am 3 years later wondering what to do. I'm sure if I were 40 I'd be working already but over 60 you might as well be dead. SO, I'm wondering about A+. Does anyone think that this will make me more employable? Or should I being a greeter at Walmart?"
Evil fascist corporatist 1% pig man! You should pay 100% taxes because all you do is take money now and not work, making all of your slave labor wage workers, who you probably won't let unionize, do all of the stuff that really creates the money. Capitalist parasite! The only reason there are poor people is because people like you won't let them have your money, since you took the prosperity from other people by having a corporation. Oh, wait, is the election over? Are people allowed to talk rationally and admire guys who start businesses and employ people, now? Whew.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Too bad no one suggested or is suggesting the rhetoric you think is funny sarcasm.
Right, no one. Other than an endless parade of lefties (many right her on /.) that routinely castigate business owners for ... being business owners, and for being successful. The Obama campaign's entire premise was a populist class-anger pitch that rich people (who pay the vast majority of the taxes) don't pay enough taxes ... even though taxing them at 100% wouldn't even put a dent in the deficit.
That rhetoric - vitriolic hatred of people who sign paychecks - is nearly epidemic. Employers are treated like cartoon villains.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.