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Over 40 and Unemployed

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What do you want to learn right now?
All of us are trying to learn and apply AI in some way. How can I help? I am no expert, but together, we can get you where you need to be. What do you want to learn next?
What do you want to learn right now?
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I can help if you like - working with Claude code as well as the new Gemini antigravity tech - also looking at building automations for google cloud and MS office 365
Welcome to everyone who just joined.
If you're here, you're probably over 40 and fighting the same fight I am. Sending out resumes that disappear into the void. Getting ghosted by recruiters. Watching younger people get hired for jobs you're overqualified for. Wondering if you're unemployable or if the entire system just broke while you weren't looking. You're not imagining it. The job market is brutal right now. Especially for us. I'm 57. I've been freelancing for over 20 years. I have a degree. I use AI tools every day. I'm faster and better at my work than I've ever been. And I still can't get hired. Not because I'm not good enough. Because companies don't want to invest in people like us anymore. We're too expensive. Too experienced. Too likely to know our worth and not accept garbage wages. This group exists because we're all dealing with the same thing. And most of us are doing it alone. Scrolling LinkedIn at 2am wondering what we're doing wrong. Applying to jobs we're overqualified for and still not getting callbacks. Trying to figure out how to rebuild a career in a market that decided we're disposable. You're not alone. That's why we're here. Drop a comment and introduce yourself. Where are you? What kind of work are you looking for? What's your biggest struggle right now? Let's actually talk about this. Let's help each other. Let's stop pretending this is normal and start figuring out how to survive it together. Welcome. I'm glad you're here.
Welcome to everyone who just joined.
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Hello folks - Jane here, 57, living in NL but very much still British. Spent 25 years as a consultant - service design, product management, big programmes. Mostly building services for government and NHS, some fintech and healthcare. Come in, untangle the mess, make it actually work for users, hand it over, repeat. EVen had a couple of projects writing strategies for large gov to implement ai safely and working up projects so until a few months ago was very much in the middle of things. Ho hum. Now redundant since April. Had a couple of bites but I think I've forgotten how to interview? Spent so long selling projects and solutions, selling myself feels like a completely different thing. So I've stopped waiting and started building instead. Got Claude and Gemini as my dev team now, which is frankly a bit weird but also brilliant? All those years knowing what needed to be built, and now I can actually build it myself. We'll see where it goes. Thinking about freelance, small gigs, advisory stuff. But mostly just here because it's good to be around people who understand what this is actually like.
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Jane Fletcher
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Brit living in NL - 20+ years in tech - recently made redundant - too many job applications to count - trying to build my own way into employment..

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Joined Nov 22, 2025