64 and unemployed: One man's struggle to be taken seriously as a job applicant
I'm only in my 50s, but this is very relateable.  Did a couple dozen interviews a year or two ago before finally getting a bite.  Somewhat amazingly, even passed the hiring committee at a FANG, only to get swatted down by a rare strike from the executive level.<p>In one interview, was asked to produce a class that could serialize and deserialize a list of numbers, to/from a string of chars.  Sure, it's not that hard.  Took maybe ten minutes?  A few tests, it worked fine.  They declined--"your skills seem rusty".  Huh?<p>I'm in good health and much better financial situation than the guy in the story.  But without being too grim, I've accepted that someday I might run completely out of money.  If I can't get hired in tech, I'll give McDonald's a shot--it's honest work.  Failing that, I'll make my graceful exit.