I read in an article written by someone in February 2016 about the concerns of young people regarding the collaboration with an older person. I mean, if in some companies the age of employees is somewhere around 30 how is it possible to integrate people over 45?

The author of the article confused me a little with his attitude, but assuming I’m talking about a young person I saw things a little differently, from his point of view. But let’s just see an excerpt from the article I’m talking about, written on the site desprejoburi.com

“These are questions that we, the young ones, ask ourselves involuntarily when considering to hire people that have the age of our parent. And not because we are bad. And not because we discriminate them. We respect all persons who have reached a certain age. But as I have fears, so do you. The problem is the lack of communication between generations. We have some questions, maybe you have questions too. But if you want this thing to work, you need to take the lead and give us some solutions and answers without asking you. Because we do not have the courage to ask the questions above. Yes, we’re embarrassed about this. As we’re embarrassed to tell our mother that it’s never too late learn something new and to progress in life, no matter the age. “

I had a few flashes in my head, some life stories, but a couple of few images from several movies I’ve seen. I remembered well the stories and the titles. Three films with a similar subject from the one in the article. Movies that have debated the same issue but in a hilarious mode … sometimes deliberately exaggerated but otherwise the movie would not be a movie anymore, right?

I’m talking about the movie released this year, “Get A Job” that presents the problems of 5 young people who all try to find the job of their dreams and the father of one of them who is around 50 years old and he is forced to find a new job.

Another movie is the one where Tom Hanks (Larry Crowne, 2011) is forced to reinvent himself after he loses his job and so he goes to college and spends time among teenagers. And a third film that I remember is “The Intern” (2015) in which Robert De Niro has over 65 years but the way he approached the character it can fit the subject of the article. In the movie, he wants to be a part of a company in which there were only employees under 30.

I recommend these three films for different reasons. 🙂

The idea is that all have something to learn from each other. The older persons can assimilate new things if they want, the same as the youngest can learn a lot from the experience of others. The idea of accepting some of the others and skip some internal barriers could help in the internal communication of a company.

We all know that in the last couple of years we can see people over 45 years old doing simple jobs that don’t involve creativity or any quality standards, jobs that young people don’t want. This kind of jobs are poorly paid (but this is another story) and the young ones want high salaries that can cover their needs (for buying a house, a car, going to vacation, leisure, buying gadgets). Here find their place those over 45 years. They’re good at what they do because they’re serious and dedicated employees. They don’t have the same needs as the youngest do. They went over that stage and they can meet other types of needs with the money they earn. Most of the times they spent the money on paying the bills and ensure livelihood.

What could do a person over 45 years old, which in most cases looks like a person of 45+ years? There are “happier” examples as well when you can’t tell the age of a person that is over 45 years old and their attitude can ensure success by knowing how to use all their strengths.

But let’s go back to those who are seeking a good job after the age of 45, they can always seek professional advice, especially if they’re not flexible, they haven’t experienced in a long time a job change or the change of the area of activity. “I can do this in my way …” does not work, especially if you want a better-paid job than average if you want to make something interesting that will help you to stay comfortable when you’re retired. 🙂

In many cases, the ones who have experience both in life and professional are above the young ones that want huge salaries overnight, relaxed schedule and all kinds of bonuses. Those over 45 years are not so demanding, may come cheaper but they’re persuasive and trained because they already went through the life.

We are going through a wave of change. About ten years ago you did not see young employees and employees over 45 years working together in the same department. Meanwhile, the situation has changed, we accepted that the things are just the way they are and the visual impact was diminished and it doesn’t surprise anybody anymore. I guess that in a few years everything will be calmer and will even manage to think similar, no matter how old we are, have fun, laugh at the same jokes and have the jobs that we want. 🙂

Remember that for the difficulties that may arise, both for the ones that are 30 or over 45 years old MindCode Chessboard Strategy for Jobs program can be loaded and used your job field: marketing and sales, administration and IT, accounting and production, as long as you want to know what to do to get the results you want in the easiest way possible, and live an integrated lifestyle to achieve a balance between personal and professional life.

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