[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Retired engineers, are you being asked to re...
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       Ask HN: Retired engineers, are you being asked to return to work?
        
       Several years ago, I was pushed out of my full-time job, along with
       all other engineers over 55. Similar situation for four of seven
       colleagues in our consulting consortia, where we do occasional side
       jobs. Our consortia previously numbered 13, but four had got their
       fill of American employers and went back to their home countries,
       while two 'near-shored' themselves into Mexico and Argentina.  For
       last three months, phone has been ringing and email is full of both
       contract and full-time offers. I have doubled fees and am more
       selective (fishing and reading and harassing my wife are my
       preferred tasks). None of this made sense when you look at reports
       of the thousands of people being kicked to the curb (but maybe
       that's particular to coders and not hardware engineers). But I did
       see this:  businessinsider.com/baby-boomer-retirement-surge-spark-
       forever-labor-shortage-jobs-workers-2023-5  Older workers, are you
       being sought after? Do you think that gen X and Y will have less
       stressful employment situations, or will employers always be able
       to mitigate worker costs?
        
       Author : BJBBB
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2023-05-15 21:09 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
       | fxtentacle wrote:
       | I'm not even retired yet, but I see a clear increase in demand
       | for experienced generalists since the beginning of 2023.
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       | My guess would be that many companies are now trying to
       | restructure from large "agile" teams back to the small groups
       | that get actual work done.
        
       | sneed_chucker wrote:
       | Is it possible that you have specific skills with a stack or
       | technology that the younger engineering cohorts aren't familiar
       | with?
        
         | fm2606 wrote:
         | Great question and I'd like to add one:
         | 
         | When you started your consulting business where you advertising
         | or through networking to find clients?
        
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