> most of the time the recruiters say that the age is a problem
For real? What country is this in?
For real? What country is this in?
Unless there is a ongoing relationship, in which case you wouldn't be asking.
Maybe he could try monitoring and keeping up some important system, remotely. A night job, but a different timezone could work to his advantage. Assuming he knows english, of course.
Another area would be a test engineer, and try to break things.