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>>zdw+(OP)
I've written software for Intel, Nintendo, Samsung, LG, DirecTV, Applied Materials, Microsoft, and Apple to name a few. My last project was the basis for an entire business line at a 500m/yr company.

I am unemployable because I'm a white male whose in his 40s, has a family, and because somehow, in this industry experience is a bad thing.

It amazes me how intolerant of age and differing opinion tech culture is.

>>oceang+x4
> I am unemployable because I'm a white male whose in his 40s, has a family, and because somehow, in this industry experience is a bad thing.

What indications do you have that those are the reasons you are unemployable?

I have many well respected, senior coworkers who fit this description so at least personally I don't understand why people would be hesitant to hire you based on that description alone..

>>rifung+t5
Well, I'm sure nobody's ever walked up to oceanghost and said, "I'm not hiring you because you're an old(er) white male" (although, unlike every other possible form of discrimination, that would be perfectly legal), he just probably has a sense that this is what's going on based on the attitudes around him. But I doubt that the author of the linked article has ever had anybody come up to her and say "I'm not hiring you/promoting you/supporting you because you're a woman (or 'of color')", either - if they had, I suspect it would have worked it's way into her article somewhere. Instead, she just gauges the attitudes of the people around her and makes her best guess as to why things aren't working out the way she wants them to. If her suppositions are reasonable, then oceanghost's are, too.