Originally posted by Ekop785
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My boss, also deemed redundant, and I were given a "pie in the sky" project nobody thought was possible with current technology; we found out later the plan was to wait for us to fail and then to fire us both. Well, not only did we not fail, we succeeded to the extent our company started getting press about the work we'd done, and that triggered more investment in our group and promotions for both of us. Was learning a totally new skill in my early 60s easy? No freakin' way. I invested evenings and weekends for over a year trying to bone up on the technology, but that investment paid off. I am now turning down requests to interview for new jobs on a weekly basis, sometimes a daily basis. I never figured I'd be a hot commodity in my mid-60s.
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