A clear-eyed examination of why experienced professionals can disappear inside a “strong” labor market. This essay explains how employment metrics and modern hiring systems misclassify, filter, or bypass competence, and how misreading them leads to wasted effort and false conclusions for individuals.

Generation X isn’t being left behind in the age of AI, we’re built for it. In “Reality Bites: Gen X at the Crossroads of AI,” Jamie Venable reports that experience, judgment, and curiosity make Gen X indispensable in the era of machine intelligence. AI doesn’t replace wisdom; it amplifies it, and this trillion-dollar engine rewards those who know how to steer it.

The official unemployment rate for Gen X is 2.9%, but the reality is far different. Here's what the statistics don't show about ageism, underemployment, and invisible joblessness. Jamie Venable tackles the issue.