Age bias is real and it’s time us 40+ year olds flip the script and play up advantages of being 40+ as we lived life before it was automated.

1. Generation X and
Proud
Ilana Kearns

2. Age Bias is Real
it’s time us 40+ year olds flip
the script and play up
advantages of being 40+ as
we lived life before it was
automated.

3. I remember life before the internet and
watched Google Amazon & Apple rise
from nothing.

4. I didn’t have Google during my school
days... we were still reading books and
used the library for research. Creativity
was alive + well.

5. I watched analogue turn
digital and all the creativity
that took.

6. I was part of an
original Salesforce pilot when
they were nothing more than a
mere startup during my days as
an Account Rep w/ R. L. Polk &
Co. & part of the Polk team when
we purchased CARFAX now both
owned by IHS Markit.

7. I WATCHED THE RISE + FALL OF
THE INFAMOUS PETS.COM SOCK
PUPPET.

8. I lived through 9/11 and survived the devestating
blow to Detroit; the former Big 3, Ford Motor
Company General Motors & Chrysler were offering
0% loans for 72 months along with government
bailouts as the automotive industry blew up and
left thousands of people jobless with upside down
mortgages. Abandoned homes were the new norm
as people bailed out of MI in search of new
opportunities.

9. In these troubled
times, being 42
years old is a
competitive
advantage!