Like so many posting, I have been out of work for over one year. I would love some real answers why? I live in NH with an under 3% unemployment rate. I hear that high tech jobs are going unfilled because of the lack of qualified people. Yet I along with many other over 55 with years of experience, knowledge and other great attributes that boomers have over Gen X, and millennials. I have had great interview with great companies, and higher Ed institutions in the Boston Ma area. I have been told over and over. There is not any reason why we wouldn't hire you, its a matter of finding the right person, the right fit for our culture (code name, looking for someone younger!) Why? I just don't get it? I feel like I have some type of disease, Stay away! Can someone please shed some light as to what is really going on? when I was younger I worked with people in their late 50's and 60's who mentored and shared their knowledge, my 36 years of technical, and managerial experience has no value? FYI I am a life long leaner and since I have been out of work I have been studying ITIL and project management online. I have recently completed Network + and Cisco CCNA training.. I am also interning for a friends local computer store, and doing a lot of tech work on Cisco Networks, MS server, and VMware. So no one can say I am old and staying stagnant yet no one sees value in my background and experience. What frustrates me the most is the missed value that me and other older people bring to the table with life experience . Older people have raised children, financed children through college, , dealt with having $5 to our name until next pay check, and other hardships that I don't care to talk about! bottom line we are survivors, we have dealt with compromising, negotiating, resourceful, and comfortable with change. We grew up without internet, cell phones and most of us had B&W TV's. Yet I along with many other over 55, I am being told I offer no value to employers?