I’m 41, almost a decade into my third career. I work with colleagues in their 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and two in their 70s. A colleague in his 50s left my place of work to go to another last year, a colleague who’s 63 started here two years ago - same time I did.
28? You have the best decade in front you, try not to waste it.
Fuck me. I didn’t even finish my education until I was 32.
Twenty-eight is not too old to be entering the job market. But it is an issue that many interviewers are going to ask you about. They’re going to want to know what you’ve been doing in the last few years rather than working. So you should anticipate the question and have an answer ready if it’s asked.
It’s not too old to get a job doing general labor or serving coffee. Temp agencies are always looking for people to fill warehouse positions and the like; such jobs generally tend to attract losers who literally cannot show up for work for five consecutive days, so if our enterprising young OP can just show up for work on time and sober for a few weeks he’d probably get a permanent position. (I am really not exaggerating; I’ve seen the files at labor agencies that fill those kinds of positions, and they really do struggle to just find people who’ll take minimum wage jobs without showing up late, drunk, or high.)
And if that’s what you gotta do, that’s what you gotta do. Everyone starts somewhere, it’s usually at the bottom, and you might as well start Monday.
Isn’t this too young? People in their 30s should be making considerably less money than people in their 50s and early 60s.
Anyway, CaptainAmerica_1987, I decided to change careers at the ripe old age of 34 and a half. It was during the recession, and it only took me 7 weeks to find a new job that paid twice as much as my old one. It’s not age, you need a better excuse.
In all seriousness I super highly recommend going to the library, borrowing Resumes That Knock 'Em Dead by Martin Yate and following the advice exactly. It feels absurd but I did and 3 out of the 4 last cover letters I wrote got me interviews when I’d gotten none weeks 1-6 of that job search.
I turned 65 just 4 days before I started my current job.
No, you are not too old, but you do have to look!