I used to be able to land an offer of a new job within a month.

[Xolodno]

It's been a month and a half. I'm landing interviews with 80% of them, just can't get the deal sealed.

One company I was for sure I nailed, got the email stating I was still under consideration, but hinted it was put on hold for the time being.

Should hear back in a couple of weeks on another.

So I went to my contacts on Linkedin and was shocked, 400+ connections and almost half of them are looking for work. I started looking at options further east and was also surprised. One large company had disabled the hyperlinks to Product and Analytics roles. Another only had two spots. Several others didn't have any. Then I put two and two together, all the news articles where insurance companies are retreating or freezing their Homeowners and Property & Casualty books. I knew it was a hard market, but apparently its worse than I thought. The reinsurance companies are probably taking a hard line (as they pool risk around the entire globe and we know how climate change is making a mess of things). So no company can grow market share unless they just speacialize in auto.

So I took it as a sign. I always wanted to get into teaching and I submitted my application for a credential yesterday. Single subject (was thinking about math...but I really don't want to do math all day long), Social Science (I have my Econ degree). Figure there is a fairly good chance of a recession and the insurance industry probably won't recover for a couple of years, by then I'll be 55 and prospects for gainful employment, even though ageism is illegal, is going to be sparse.

[Walleye]

1. Good move on your part. I think a lot of businesses just don't wanna make any kind of moves right now because they don't

Have any idea what might happen in the future. A recession could mean all kinds of things.

[underpants]

2. Have you looked into state or local government jobs

The pat isn’t on private sector level but the benefits can be pretty good.

[CrispyQ]

3. America could use a good economics professor.

You could be Xolodno the Econ Guy. Not quite the ring to it as Bill Nye the Science Guy but it's still memorable.

But seriously, good luck. Ageism is real. Whiten your teeth if you haven't already. 😁

[cachukis]

4. Got it. Made the change to teach at 50. Health care

and pension. Pay was low, but had salted away.
8 years retired.

[Ilsa]

5. A friend was in his mid 50s when he was laid off.

He found work again, but only after removing the most obvious references to his age, length of career, etc.

Good luck teaching!