Chris Greenslade

Essex

Enterprise IT Architect

In spite of twenty years of experience, I had to give up seeking “employment” in my mid-forties. It had become obvious that both recruitment agencies and internal HR departments were just adding me to their lists in order to impress with the number of people they had processed. However, I never got to meet the real decision makers.

So, for the past twenty years I have been successfully earning my living as an independent consultant and trainer. Even then I am constantly meeting people who take one look at my grey hair and who classify me as someone who needs his grandchildren to program the video recorder for him. When will these people learn that not only are people of my generation capable of understanding current techniques and methods, but we are the people who developed them from scratch and, therefore, have the greatest understanding of them?