to be pissed off with my best friend?

[daisydotandgertie]

because she's just told me 'the only problems you'll have finding a new job are your age and the fact that you've just got married'. Sooo what I didn't need to hear.

AIBU or is she right - I don't have a cats chance in hell of finding a new job because I'm too old, likely to be broody and am now quite frankly feeling a bit washed up?

Who needs to know you've just got married? Or your age frankly, I don't know how old you are but no need to put DOB on your CV.
She is being a bit negative IMO.

Errr,whats your marital status got to do with any job ?

She sounds like a loon imo.

Unless your planning on going on honeymoon as soon as you begin a new job, nobody needs ot know your marital status, let alone that you just married.
Besides, unmarried women can broody too, its nobody's business and utterly irrelevant.

Sadly, a lot of employers are deliberately avoiding hiring women who they think are likely to have children relatively soon. If you are recently married, then that's you.

The situation is only likely to change if men get the same paternity rights as women's maternity rights, because then women are not going to be the bigger risk anymore.

In an ideal world your age and your marital status would have bugger all to do with your job prospects but in the real world ...

All depends really on where you plan on applying for a job. If it is a small company where your going on maternity leave would leave a big gap then I think that your interviewer consciously (or unconsciously, it being against the law and all) might be thinking of that. If it is a larger company I would imagine that it would be less of an issue.

Either way I think your friend is being realistic in saying it may be a factor but also that there is absolutely no reason why you wouldn't get a job so don't let it get you down.

Best of luck with your search!

A lot of employers avoid hiring women from about the age of 18-45. It is not right or fair but still happens far too much.

I'm applying for jobs any-which-where I can make my skill set fit but I do make a point of not including any statement on my marital status (it's none of their bloody business) and even with the title of Mrs they haven't a hope of knowing whether I got married 15 years ago or last week. I suppose if they wanted to they could work my age out from school dates and stuff.

What's even more annoying is that I know she's wrong - not about the attitude which I know exist, but that employers can ask about personal circumstances in the interviewing process - and even knowing that she's wrong hasn't stopped me being pissed right off.

She is well known for her ability to make tactless/crass/insulting comments without thinking of the way they come across, and if she knew she'd upset me she'd be mortified. But. It has hit a raw nerve and I am with her.