(excerpt)"At tech startups, older workers scramble to fit in"-THE BOSTON GLOBE (2015)
At 51, Cirino, the venture capitalist, has not only observed others struggling to avoid the dreaded “in my day” syndrome, she’s living it. She recently ditched her beloved BlackBerry because it was pegging her as old.
“I’d go to meetings and a lot of guys had never seen one,” she said. “They’d say, ‘Is that a BlackBerry? I didn’t think those were still around.’ ”
She now e-mails and texts on her Android phone. On the virtual keyboard, she types slower and makes more typos, “but it’s the price I pay for looking contemporary,” she said.
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