"Employers don't expect middle aged people to be innovators."<p>Well... if he's an innovator, why doesn't he create a start-up? He has plenty of experience to draw on, presumably. The truth is that employers want you to do what <i>they</i> want, not what <i>you</i> want. The last interviewee seems more business-oriented, despite training in microbiology.
A quote from the article, from a master's degree recipient: "Instead, things got worst."<p>So when was basic literacy dropped from the list of preconditions for the label "educated"?