So, I suppose you're going to find a new career by the time you're 50? Perhaps you will be promoted multiple times, find a nice management position inside and have an admin fetch your coffee every morning? Maybe take Wednesday afternoons off to play golf with the other idle managers? Life will be good. No more worthless and miserable repping for you. Stop watching television. It doesn't work that way.
Your visions of grandeur aside, you had better pray every day that you start seeing older people in your company. Otherwise, just as surely as the clock ticks, you'll be 50 one day too. And yes, there will be brainless 25 year-olds like yourself making the same stupid comments.
Yet, unless you've won the lottery, or fail at the job and get fired, you'll still need to work and you'll be hard pressed to find anything else that offers as much with the same relative independence. If you're 50 or 60 and still employed in this business, congratulations, if you can do it.
The reason there isn't more seniors has more to do with the difficulty of corporate culture than it does with age-discrimination. People simply have an increasingly difficult time playing the game as they mature. It's so repetitive. Every year is the year to take it to the next level. Every sales team is the best in the business. Every DM is the most dedicated leader. Every product is going to save the world. blah, blah, blah.
Instead of companies making the most of the mature employee, exploiting their experience, and allowing lattitude to their routine, they try to maintain a one dimensional approach. Consequently, you see more Ken and Barbies than Professor Dumbledore's.
