I cannot help but feel sorry for people that struggle with ageism (the poster graduated college in 1974) or the plague of un-employment. What is your take on this post I saw on LinkedIn.
"Folks, I need some advice. I had a preliminary phone interview this AM for what sounds like potentially an interesting position. However, as seems to be the disturbing norm these days, salary came up at the end of the conversation. Of course, I deflected.
Shortly thereafter, the recruiter emailed me with the maximum salary they can go. It's very low for a person of my experience - less than 2/3 what I made at my last job. On the other hand, it's a whole lot more than I have now.
So what's your advice? Do I move forward despite the lowball pay? (1 concern is that the message I hear is that they're more concerned about cost than results.) Or do I take a pass? Am I cutting off my nose to spite my face?
Thanks."
I know what I would do depending on how long I was looking for work; take the money, keep looking for more work, and start investing better to carry me the last 20-30+ years of life or... do my current plan of investing well so I do not need to work in my 60s. How about you?