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ILLEFTY

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After being laid off for over 14 months, I finaly got a job as a temporary at the local Wal Mart helping with the store remodeling. Major change, as I have worked most of my life in foundries. When your pushing 60 not many want to employ you. It's a pay check.
 
i hear ya , and its a shame too, young managers and employers dont seem to realize when your 60, you have job skills and experience younger people can only dream about, im just trying to make what ican where i can too
 
I find that these younger managers perhaps don't want to hire the older guys with all their experience because they are worried that the older guy with all the experience will replace them. I was out of work for over a year. I'm a moldmaker by trade, but that industry went overseas. I got a job as a manual machinist, worked 3 weeks and got laid off. I was told the work load dropped off. I'm in Texas, so much of what we do is still related to the oil drilling industry.
 
ILLLEFTY.Read your post about being old and the FOUNDRY WORK. BTDT.Cutting sand, moulding, weight shifting, pouring brass /alluminum(sp)cast iron,core baking cutting off gates & risers running Jolt squeezers etc. Back breaking work and dirty,tiresome day after day. Wallmart would have been a blessing at that time in life.Wouldn't be hurting as much as I am now at 75. Glad you found work. REguards LOU
 
Ya it is a job and good for you. As for the other part yep know how it goes been passed by on many jobs because I was told I knew to much so they would have to pay me to much.
 
Had several interviews since I turned 50 where I wasn't "technically" discriminated against because of my age; but I wasn't hired because, at
my age, I would cause their insurance rates to go up...and because of the insurance rate problem [and not "just" because of my age], I was passed over for the job in favor of someone younger.

And while age discrimination is illegal, apparently insurance rate-based discrimination isn't.
 
Spent one summer in a founday making manifolds for Chrysler in Fostoria, Ohio. What a hole! We were working by the furnance which was adjacent to the pouring floor. It was about 135 F degrees where we were working and 115 on pouring floor. Everyone looked like a dark African at shift end. Paid by the piece so everyone worked hard. I can't fathom a career in that place, one summer was too much. Our foundry which is newer, and electric is still hot and dirty, but nothing compared to that misery.
 
James 22. Know what you mean. Worked at 2 different foundrys. One in Compton Cal at LYNMOLD making aircraft parts. Ran a perminate mold ,hand ladeling alum for struds,doing Backstand grinding, Sandblasting . 2nd foundry In Anderson Ind. Cast,brass. alum.even ran a wheelabrater, core ovens, and all the rest of the filthy HOT jobs. Wife and 3 little girls so had to do what a man has to do.!!!!Sure would have loved a clean job at wallmart,if they were in business there. JMHO. LOU
 
We often think we are steping to a lower position, and not always real easy to do. In this job market a job is definatly a job, regardless, it may open some doors as well.

If nothing else, it gives you some hope anyway, and has to reduce stress levels.
 
There is a lot of discrimination out there just not in such a way people see it for what it is. Like years ago when the disability act came out it caused more problems then it helped. Right after I had my back cut on I tried to get jobs and no one would hire me, they said it was for this or that but I think it was because of my bad back and the insurance thing
 
I worked in a foundry (Buckeye Steel) for about 6 months part time while the wife was on maternity leave. I worked safety/security so we had to do a tour of the entire plant at least once a shift. I'm glad I wasn't on the floor all the time, I'd hate to have that job as a career. To little job security and a lot of ways to die. When I interviewed for the job, the lead safety tech made the comment; "We've been doing pretty good on safety. We haven't had a fatality in 18 months". 8^0
 
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