Grab your coffee. Let's talk. In less than 60 minutes, we're meeting for our weekly coffee hour in the 40 and Unemployed community. One hour. No agenda. Just real conversation about what you're going through. Job search struggles. Age discrimination. Freelancing. Building something on your own terms. Whatever's on your mind. This is your space to vent, share wins, ask questions, and connect with people who get it. See you in the room. By the way— If you're trying to build income on Medium and tired of making pennies, I just launched Medium Mastery. 11 modules teaching exactly how I went from $300/month to $4,500/month in 90 days. Weekly live coaching. Real community. No guru bullshit. First 300 members: $5/month locked in foreverAfter that: $14.99/month 👉 https://www.skool.com/medium-mastery-1766/about Not required. Just letting you know it's there if you're ready to stop writing for your ego and start writing for income. See you in an hour. —Jason

Please enjoy! I hope we can get more people next week. What a great group. So much fun and. a great discusiion!

If you're here, you're probably over 40 and fighting the same fight I am. Sending out resumes that disappear into the void. Getting ghosted by recruiters. Watching younger people get hired for jobs you're overqualified for. Wondering if you're unemployable or if the entire system just broke while you weren't looking. You're not imagining it. The job market is brutal right now. Especially for us. I'm 57. I've been freelancing for over 20 years. I have a degree. I use AI tools every day. I'm faster and better at my work than I've ever been. And I still can't get hired. Not because I'm not good enough. Because companies don't want to invest in people like us anymore. We're too expensive. Too experienced. Too likely to know our worth and not accept garbage wages. This group exists because we're all dealing with the same thing. And most of us are doing it alone. Scrolling LinkedIn at 2am wondering what we're doing wrong. Applying to jobs we're overqualified for and still not getting callbacks. Trying to figure out how to rebuild a career in a market that decided we're disposable. You're not alone. That's why we're here. Drop a comment and introduce yourself. Where are you? What kind of work are you looking for? What's your biggest struggle right now? Let's actually talk about this. Let's help each other. Let's stop pretending this is normal and start figuring out how to survive it together. Welcome. I'm glad you're here.