Oh great.

[hmpf]

I just found out that I'm legally prohibited from getting any higher-level type of job at a library: they're only allowed to take beginners if they're under thirty. Which I'm not even remotely, anymore. *sigh*

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[(Anonymous)]

Is that the case for the whole of Germany, or just your Bundesland? And yeah, this sucks.

Yeah, all of Germany, sadly.

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Ageist discrimination, this is...

Re: Yeah, all of Germany, sadly.

[(Anonymous)]

Absolutely. Still seems to be largely acceptable in Germany ...

[ommadon.livejournal.com]

...but you work in a library, so you're not a beginner are you??

I'm a beginner...

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

because this age limit applies to the two years of formal training you need to advance to the 'higher regions' of library service... so, I could theoretically still get lower level library jobs, but I wouldn't ever be able to advance very much. The work I did at the libraries where I worked wasn't real, proper, qualified work, you see - it was untrained, temping type of work. Doesn't count for shit when you want to get a 'real' library job, basically.

(I'm not actually working at a library anymore, btw. I've been unemployed since October, until a couple of weeks ago, and I now work at a computer hardware company, as untrained office help.)