Are you one of our colleagues, our friend, the friend of our friends, our neighbor from the offices of multinational companies in Romania?

You’re the one that I see every night during the week and sometimes on Saturdays and Sundays, late in the night, in the tall buildings full of offices on the boulevard?

Have you between 30 and 50 years and you spent a part of your childhood or adolescence under communism?

You’re working for this kind of companies from the first years you entered the job market, have participated in numerous training and team buildings sites and you become an expert in your field?

What I said above it’s about you and so are the MindCode programs, but beyond that, I will talk a little about the problem of finding a job when you already are 45 years old or more.

It’s possible that some readers will find themselves in this article even if they’re thirty years or more or even if they’re younger than 30 but they’re concerned about their careers, what will happen with them over ten, fifteen years.

It is known that employees over 45 have problems in finding a new job. Whether you spent a lifetime in the same company or you had only two jobs in two different employers

Although the trend in recent years is on an upward slope when it comes to hiring “young people” over 45 years – when you come closer to this age all kinds of remorse, frustrations and searches begin to appear.

You feel like you need a Guide to show you the path, to give you solutions, to take you by the hand and show you the way. But in most cases the” Guide” that should guide you in finding the desired job or just a job that will keep you alive it becomes the boring ANOFM institution.

No, ANOFM it’s not a name from a science fiction movie, but stands for the National Agency for Labor Force Employment. If you did not need “she” (let’s say “she”), this name of ANOFM would go unnoticed. If needed, however, it turns to Wish Fairy. But once you reached the ANOFM Wish Fairy, you don’t always get what you want. It’s actually the opposite of the Wish Fairy. You go there with your entire experience, you want a pretty good job but you are flexible and willing to accept other jobs that are somewhat ok but the ANOFM Fairy … gives you a job that you didn’t even know that exists.

The problem of finding a job after the age of 45 or 50 years it’s a real problem especially for me, if we look at the market and even around us. For them, the problem is acuter because the fallen is very rapid. Men who had good jobs, well-payed jobs in interesting domains, after 50 come to have a problem in finding a job that it’s more or less linked to past experience. Most of them end up in another field. Became drivers at various companies, taxi drivers, couriers, guards at security companies etc.

It’s a shock over which they must move. Both financially and psychologically. They’re forced to accept anything in order to carry on the daily life until they reach retirement.

If you want to succeed, however, you need to reinvent yourself. You have to flirt with LinkedIn, do a new resume no longer focused on jobs in chronological order and even say NO to age section in the resume, you have to elaborate an optimistic cover letter, without complaining about your situation and you might even speak of your last job and at the job interview to be ready to blow their minds off about how energetic you are and aware of the last trends in your field, just like when you were 25 years old!

As I already said on the site … chasing money and living from one month to another month, awaiting the salary day, focusing on a fixed amount of money take all your energy. You think at your job as a rat race from which you want to escape.

Those who are successful rise above the division between work and play, they do what they like and enjoy what they do. I think most of us have to look for a calling, not a job.

(To be continued)

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