The fact that the Kansas City Area Development Council “has launched ... a multimedia marketing plan aimed at helping local corporations recruit and retain that coveted 25- to 34-year-old age group” sickens me (4/22, Business, “KC listens to ‘creative class’.”).
Society continues to exalt the young without any regard for the middle-aged, who are in dire need of jobs to support ourselves. I bet I have more talent in my little finger than the “creative class” the KCADC is marketing
I am tired of seeing the focus on young adults when there are so many others whose talents and skills go unrecognized.
I recently toured the set of a soap opera. I told the tour guide that they need to incorporate overweight, unattractive, older actors into their scripts. He replied, “We’re into creating fantasies, and it wouldn’t work.”
I responded, “If you want a real fantasy, have a love story between a fat, ugly, older woman with a handsome, comparably aged, wealthy man.”
Kansas City and the rest of the world need to recognize that those of us with wrinkles should be recruited and retained for all we are and all we know.
Nan Lorenz
Kansas City
Nan it should come down to skills and experince. Unfortunately companies like to bring on younger worker fresh and green out of college, this way they can mold them into the robots they wnt at much less cost.
Once they get "too old" and "make too much" they too will be given walking papers.
If you have the skill sets and expereince, it should make no difference your age so long as you can accomplish the job.
Posted by: NoMoreMrNiceGuy | April 30, 2008 at 07:41 AM