What would your impression be of a 45 year old intern? (employment, 401k)
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I would be curious to know why someone that old (with tons of work experience and likely bills to pay or family to support) would be willing to work as an intern
There is this middle-aged guy at my office who I just discovered is an intern. For the longest time I just assumed he was a new employee who somehow managed to never get formally introduced. I was kind of blown away when I learned about it today. It was kind of one of those "scratch your head" moments. Why would a guy like that be doing an internship? Why would a guy that age even need an internship? Furthermore, why wouldn't a company be suspicious of a middle-aged guy being interested in such a low-paying, sophomoric position?
Maybe he might be getting paid more then you do. He could be your future boss for all you know. Are you sure it is a school internship or something else planned? Sometimes people shadow jobs as part of consulting and reports.
There is this middle-aged guy at my office who I just discovered is an intern. For the longest time I just assumed he was a new employee who somehow managed to never get formally introduced. I was kind of blown away when I learned about it today. It was kind of one of those "scratch your head" moments. Why would a guy like that be doing an internship? Why would a guy that age even need an internship? Furthermore, why wouldn't a company be suspicious of a middle-aged guy being interested in such a low-paying, sophomoric position?
I can't tell you my impression of him, but I can certainly tell my impression of YOU.
Good for him, he changed careers or something like that. You wanted him to stay at home and beg for handouts ? Nothing wrong with him, whatever his reasons.
OP and some of you others I personally would think that I wish I could stick him in a room with all of you for a few days, maybe you can learn something about life, while he learns something about the job.
As for how I would feel about him, as someone that reinvented myself in my early 30s I would feel a tremendous amount of respect and admiration, it takes guts and fortitude to make it through school, agree to start back at the bottom and leave you previous career behind totally being 10-15 years older than your classmates, being 25 years older would be that much harder.
Perhaps the OP didn't mean it, but does seem to be these types of ageism threads once in a while.
Being in your 40's, 50's, 60's, doesn't mean you are worthless and 'should' be confined to an old folks home.
I get that many industries are ageist, so nice to see examples that go above this.
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