Job search or just give up...advice?

[shootingstar]

Doesn't hurt to send out a few resumes now before the trip, malkin. Timing can be important. Then after trip, go more intensively on job search. By the way, you earned that vacation. Remember that.

Yes, ageism is more rampant than we realize.

At a job interview, one of the interviewers (out of 3) gathered in meeting room, blamed the near-retiring boomers for resisting change (in this case it's just not information systems, but also workplace culture and changes in work processes).

Meanwhile I sat there..just thinking: Wait until your time comes, dude.

I don't hide my cycling associated work/activities. It's not given high priority in my resume but it's tucked in at the end. I think it worked in my favour in the way how people viewed me (meaning: remaining physically active. Not sick-looking, frail nor therefore prone to absenteeism.) I have some published articles on the open Internet anyways.

There is also for myself a problem of stereotyping perception by some folks in the big world since I am a librarian. So I have to find ways to switch up that stereotype and turn it on its head.