I feel this. When I reached 55, out of work, I tried getting a real job. For the next ten years I sent out resumes expecting little and getting less. Now I'm 70 and a musician in a couple of bands. Many great musicians have been able to perform at a very high level into their mid-80s and beyond. Tony Bennett just hung it up at 95. Pianist Eubie Blake performed at 100. I'm very grateful I have a career path as a senior, since corporate America has no use for the likes of me.
Paul - this is one of my pet peeves. I only have a few dozen articles on Medium, but I have written about fundraising emails not once, but twice. Fortunately they have a distinctive look that's easy to spot in a millisecond so I can delete them.
As a 70-year-old, I know nothing of this girl. But there's a universality to this story that kept me reading your excellent article. I do think, though, that there are going to continue to be outliers that go against the algorithms to break through.
