My First Taste of Ageism!

I may not be spelling it right but I'm certain I just had my first direct experience with ageism.  As you may or may not know, my team at a Fortune 500 company were displaced a few weeks ago. As you must surely know, I've taken 30+ days off to build a small company - Better Indeed LLC - and am only now (as much of my new company's infrastructure is in place) looking for another marketing/innovation gig.

My goodbye package includes outplacement and career coach. An exhaustive review of my resume elicited the following "You may wish to remove your graduation dates and, perhaps, your first job, too." What this effectively did was make me two years younger: I'm 38 again - excellent! What this also effectively did is to prepare me for a world in which guys like me - Greyhairs: Stage 1 - are looked at differently. Being half Jewish and half Catholic, I'm used to living with half the fun, twice the guilt and triple the shame. Now this. Lucky me...