Its not like a job at mcdonalds, We are talking about complex creative jobs where you need to invest a lot of time and resources to integrate new hires.
The last thing companies want is to waste all that resources into a bad hire and spend even more money getting another guy for the job.
You bet they are gonna look at all the signals and trust me a 40 year old amateur is gonna ring a lot of alarm bells!
Like literally what did you expect.. for them to completely overlook the fact that either you've done fuck all for 20 years or just jumped ship mid life.
Its not like a job at mcdonalds, We are talking about complex creative jobs where you need to invest a lot of time and resources to integrate new hires.
The last thing companies want is to waste all that resources into a bad hire and spend even more money getting another guy for the job.
You bet they are gonna look at all the signals and trust me a 40 year old amateur is gonna ring a lot of alarm bells!
Like literally what did you expect.. for them to completely overlook the fact that either you've done fuck all for 20 years or just jumped ship mid life.