How does this fare in cultures where there are no second chances, like many places in the US?
My gut says this is a scam.
My gut says this is a scam.
If you perceive otherwise, then it is very possible that you are encountering one or both of the following:
1. A highly-local expectation, in your particular community/family/friend-groups. You may need to move.
2. A hyper-local expectation, in your own mind. It might be justified by the particular path through experiences you've had, but now become self-reinforcing & self-defeating. To see counterexamples, against human tendencies for confirmation-bias and negativity, you may have to deeply consider that you might be wrong, and that your sampling of the possibility space has been unrepresentative.
If someone does so and makes it work, that's wonderful, but at least around here I can't see a business owner tolerating someone with age but not experience, especially with legions of twentysomethings beating down the doors begging for a job before the rent savings run out.
But why would they care if two people have the same experience but one is older? What difference does it make that they wouldn't tolerate?
Step 1 - provide free advice.
Step 2 - ?
citation needed.