Over Age 50 And Got The Pink Slip?
By Frank Flandinette

Today in the Yahoo news update, it was disclosed that people who are over 50 and have been given the pink slip may have a higher risk of getting a heart attack. I became speechless when I began to read the article and I realized that this is a nightmare that is silently happening all over America and the rest of the industrialized world.

How would anyone who is in this age bracket react to such an occurrence? First of all, it happened to me, coincidentally just after I turned age 50. I did not get a pink slip because of incompetence or anything of the sort. The company where I worked for over 5 years just sold out its holdings. I was given a fine speech about how invaluable my contribution was and that I can depend on them for a great reference. After that, I was told “hasta la vista”. That was it.

At first, I did not believe that I had much of a problem. I am a qualified accountant and accountants are in demand and it will only be a question of a short period of time before something else will come up. Furthermore, I was just 50 years young and that’s not old. Boy, how wrong I was. Yes, accountants are in demand but the market is being saturated by young college graduates with accounting degrees whom employers can hire for less. Now I do not want to be the bearer of bad news. This was my experience. Your luck could be far better than mine and you could be gainfully employed in a very short space of time.