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JCMach1

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1. Our generation faced discrimination based on age

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Sun Mar 30, 2025, 02:14 PM

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Throughout our careers (especially in academia where I worked)... Not exclusively there though. Now, corporate and academic culture actively pushes people after 50yo out the door.

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The Gen X Career Meltdown [View all] dalton99a Sunday OP

Our generation faced discrimination based on age JCMach1 Sunday #1

How much does AI have to do with this? SheltieLover Sunday #2

Right now, not much. tinrobot Sunday #6

AI is just purely toxic imo, esp where arts are concerned SheltieLover Sunday #7

I know, i wish everything was concentrated in LA. that way we could get more political power Nimble_Idea Sunday #8

Remember when Schwartenegger denied credits to the media / film industry flamingdem Sunday #13

Motion picture and TV production in Atlanta is also dead Sedona Sunday #9

This feels like an article from 20 years ago... Journalism as I knew it died in the 2000's FirstLight Sunday #3

I was a journalism major at a well regarded journalism senseandsensibility Sunday #4

couldn't you have stayed in journalism but not focus on print? LymphocyteLover Sunday #10

I was only interested in/good at print senseandsensibility Sunday #11

fair enough! LymphocyteLover Monday #16

Working in the Los Angeles film industry has always come with an expiration date. tinrobot Sunday #5

Ageism...its everywhere. Xolodno Sunday #12

This is seriously nothing new flamingdem Sunday #14

This message was self-deleted by its author Skittles Sunday #15

Nah Johnny2X2X Monday #18

nice that you can speak for an entire generation Skittles Monday #19

American society is becoming a creative black hole. Oneironaut Monday #17