Okay. I’m one of the top copywriters in the country. Have been for fifty years or so. Over a hundred awards, tons of happy clients, lots and lots of product sold, customers created, etc., etc. But I can’t get a job, and you want to know why? Because of The Damn Google. First thing people nowadays do is check people out. They pull me up on Been Verified or a similar site and right there at the top of the page is my age: 84.
Oopsie! Reject that senile sucker and his Selectric. Doesn’t matter that I can still write rings around 90 percent of the copywriters whose work I see every day on television and on the internet. But the age thing is like someone hitting them in the forehead with a hammer.
“Hey, Kirk. Look at this guy. 84 years old. Probably still using a rotary phone.”
Damn The Google, Anyway.
