Washed-up at 50: age discrimination in the Netherlands - commentsWashed-up at 50: age discrimination in the Netherlands2019-05-21T20:51:23Zhttps://www.equaltimes.org/washed-up-at-50-age-discrimination#comment975892019-05-21T20:51:23Z<p>This is great information. I'm moving to the Neatherlands to send off my 2 teenage daughters. We had previously lived in Central America for the past 8 years and instead of going backwards to the USA, we'd give Europe a shot. I notice a lot of young people are heading there, but at 45 what will I be able to do?<br class="autobr" />
My wife is also 40 and we had been self employed for the last 8 years. <br class="autobr" />
Anyhow maybe we'll have to start up another business since all 3 are EU citizens. I'll have to get a Visa of some sorts.<br class="autobr" />
Is there any other European countries that have a good job market for older individuals that are on Visa?</p>Washed-up at 50: age discrimination in the Netherlands2019-03-12T23:17:36Zhttps://www.equaltimes.org/washed-up-at-50-age-discrimination#comment975312019-03-12T23:17:36Z<p>I am amazed to see your comments about age discrimination there. I am from the U.S. I visited Amsterdam last summer and loved it so that I felt almost at home and almost homesick at the prospect of leaving it. I'm 62 and wondered what it would be like to live there for a time, so I've found my way to this site and your comments. It is very disappointing, I must say as my impression was that it was so progressive and kind a place, the people so educated. I hate to know that age disctimination and it seems racial discrimmination may be alive and well there too. Sorry they have relagated you women who sound brilliant and woderful to some lower status. What smugness and how strange. You actually, I'm thinking, ought to begin an older people's alliance. I am quite serious in this. A union and a cooperative of sorts. There are enough skills and talents among you to create some fine good or service to earn money and not rely on these folks to give employment. Here in the U.S., however, we common people can't dream of retiring until 70 at least. Retirement age is officially 65, but rising to 67. Most of us will simply work as long as we are able. I'm an aid for disabled children in a school. Low pay, but work and wonderful kids. Best to you from over the water.</p>Washed-up at 50: age discrimination in the Netherlands2016-07-05T18:12:09Zhttps://www.equaltimes.org/washed-up-at-50-age-discrimination#comment968652016-07-05T18:12:09Z<p>I am so glad to hear I am not the only older person in this situation. I am German born but lived in South Africa most of my adult life. At age 59 an office job is an impossible dream. The only work I can get is in a warehouse packing and picking. Then after a short time I get fired because I cannot work as fast as a 25 year old. Next step cleaning. I came here to be closer to my daughter and because of the crime situation in South Africa but feel like I have jumped from the frying pan into the fire.</p>Washed-up at 50: age discrimination in the Netherlands2015-12-18T23:41:44Zhttps://www.equaltimes.org/washed-up-at-50-age-discrimination#comment967752015-12-18T23:41:44Z<p>I was made redundant aged 52. I do not expect that I will ever get back into the professional workplace, and I therefore plan to live off the state until the benefits run out. After that, I assume I will end up stacking shelves in the local supermarket and earn around 4% of what I used to earn.</p>Washed-up at 50: age discrimination in the Netherlands2015-11-18T13:16:25Zhttps://www.equaltimes.org/washed-up-at-50-age-discrimination#comment967562015-11-18T13:16:25Z<p>My thoughts on this can be found here:</p>
<p><a href="http://keepamericaatwork.com/while-the-government-has-been-looking-at-the-financial-impact-of-long-term-unemployment-of-older-workers-as-the-population-ages-the-human-cost-is-rarely-considered/" class="spip_url spip_out auto" rel="nofollow external">http://keepamericaatwork.com/while-the-government-has-been-looking-at-the-financial-impact-of-long-term-unemployment-of-older-workers-as-the-population-ages-the-human-cost-is-rarely-considered/</a></p>