Anyone wants to play with OpenVMS 7.3/VAX let me know :) I have a couple running under Simh and I can help you set one up if you want. On Fri, Mar 7, 2025 at 17:41 William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
IBM mainframe are DEC VAX too old. There must be some job category for 50+ men. :-)
On 2025-03-07 17:20, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote:
Companies using AI were insta-rejecting me.
The first thing I looked at was ageism.
* I pruned my resume so that AI says I'm in my sixies, and in the two cases I have tried since, the rejections came in one or more days later. The companies may not be ageist, but the black-box AI tools appear to have it bad.
* Conversely, some folks advertise themselves as Unix greybeards. I was recruited twice /because/ I'm old. A former employer consciously looked for candidates for VP and director who were in their mid-fifties to low sixties.
Lexis Nexis and a couple of other companies still have IBM mainframes, so that's a opportunity. Ditto DEC VMS.
Hmmn, I should set up a search for Solaris jobs (:-))
--dave
On 3/7/25 16:04, William Park via talk wrote:
Hi,
Do you know any job site, for old guys with legacy skill sets? Regular job, contract, full time, part time, anything is okay.
Right now, I'm using Indeed and LinkedIn to look for job. For search, Indeed returns more relevant job posts than LinkedIn. LinkedIn returns too many irrelevant posts, but I nevertheless dig through them, hoping for that right fit.
Anyways, I'm finding, my expertise and skill sets are old. I don't have the latest lingo in tools, programming language, GUI framework, web this and that, etc. I don't pass filter (AI or human).
-- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest davecb@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain
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