He's sitting there and his nose is wiggling, and you could see he was trying not to make reference to age. I felt like putting him out of his misery. We're all so young. Part of the Internet's general mystique is its reliance on young people to work long hours in cramped quarters. Others deny there's much of a problem at all, and that qualified senior workers just aren't going after Net jobs.
People can come in here with great ideas and do very well regardless of their age.
Still, the numbers seem to reflect a trend. At Yahoo, less than 5 percent of the company's more than 803 employees are age 50 or above. Only five of the 450 U.S. employees of DoubleClick qualify for American Association of Retired Persons membership. By comparison, 21.4 percent of the U.S. workforce is 50 or older, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For the few hearty souls who stick it out, there are a lot of benefits to being Internet savvy at a time when your peers are thinking about winding down their careers.