Originally Posted by rickair7777

Your light bulb may have come on there...

Like other industries and businesses they are going to prefer to hire someone who lives near the work location and doesn't have a family! Family men (and women even more so) are going to have outside distractions (typically pesky things called kids) which will increase absenteeism and distract time and emotional energy from what should be your REAL priority in life: Work.

Also screening for folks who have plenty of time for frivolous discretionary activities will help weed out older employees. They can't age discriminate directly, but they can try to filter for attributes which correlate to their desired age range. Not legal if done for that reason but very hard to prove.

So you have to play their game, you can get around their age filters with some effort, and if you do that to a sufficient degree they have to honor it, despite your age.