Job seeking as a mature, overqualified adult

Yes I can, and I further added if these men can do it, I think I can also do it. That's the answer I gave when I was asked if I can travel and monitor the far-flung communities of Sulu. Sulu is a province in Mindanao, an island in the Philippines where the bandits-terrorists are up at the moment and have just abducted a broadcast-journalist while on their way to conduct some interview to address the terrorists concerns somewhere in these conflict and war affected areas of the Philippines. Well, to my mind, I was asked that question to assess if I can beat or maybe just be in equal footing with the energy and vitality of my company who were in their early 20s and 30s. When you are on an interview and you're 50+, what remains as a virtual company is your overwhelming confidence of answering questions backed up by the gross experience you had had for years, correct English and the ability to be clever in answering. The techniques and tactics in answering the tricky questions forms part of winning that job, but again age usually gets into the standards. First, because among young people, they seem not to find ease talking to you using their own lingo, but there lingo can still be understood by people at 50+. The thing is that they find feelings of incovenience or discomfort in sharing their thoughts because what they carry at the back of their minds are their parents-children quarrel syndrome as the case maybe, I feel that they find hard time to say hi and instead they have to greet you "good morning or good afternoon ma'am". On my mind, I don't bother even if they don't greet me at all and oftentimes I ride with their hi's and hello's and end my mails with "cheers" instead of "sincerely or truly yours". I also find indifference in the thing that while I include in my resume my being a computer literate, knows MS Office Word, Excel and Powerpoint, they still ask me during interviews if I do, do I really look as if I don't? My first time now in about 30 years to be a SAHM and mind you I did online applications already, for a try. Some acknowledged, some didn't. Even if I don't put my birthday as advised by some experts in writing resumes, my experience(which I can't do without) would tell them that I've been long in the service, I simply can't help it because that's I think the meat of why they should hire me or else they won't find any reason considering me or maybe to be at edge with those 20s and 30s. Anyway, am not that sad at all because growing is not by age alone, much more aging is only a state of mind. Another case of age discrimination can be found at job search sites where companies specifies an age bracket for job positions, they require a 10-year experience, demand that the applicant-qualifier should be knowledgeable of these and that, and yet expect an amateur or this specific age bracket to have earned such a requirement when it is suited for somebody who should be at his 50s! I think there's a need to emphasize in the search in addition to that phrase where it says that the organization or institution is an equal opportunity employer and women are encouraged to apply, but what about the age, can't it be just this way,"x x x is an equal opportunity employer,we encourage all ages including women but please review job description and do not apply if not qualified" I think that will be fair enough, don't you think so?

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