Why I Started Ageism Survival Guide

In 2025, I watched something happen that I can't unsee.

Dozens of people I know - peers, former colleagues, friends - were pushed out of their companies. Not because they couldn't do the job. Not because they'd stopped caring or stopped delivering. They were pushed out because they were over 50. Because they were "expensive." Because their salaries had compounded over decades of loyalty, and some spreadsheet somewhere decided that loyalty had become a liability.

No company said that, of course. They can't. It's illegal. Instead, there were "restructuring initiatives" and "voluntary early retirement packages" and "strategic workforce adjustments." There were severance agreements with non-disparagement clauses pressed into hands still shaking from the shock. There were exit interviews where no one said what was really happening, because everyone in the room knew the truth but no one could afford to speak it.

Let me be honest with you: the pattern is unmistakable. And the silence around it is deafening. I started Ageism Survival Guide because I got tired of that silence.