Charlie Rose's Brain

Last night I watched the beginning program in a series on Charlie Rose on the brain. It was fascinating. A round table discussion of microbiologists, physiobiologists and, of course, Charlie, discussing the most cutting edge challenges of why we think how we think, what happens when we get a disease, how we process learning, information, emotion...it was so interesting and intelligent. I recommend it if you can catch it.

Ok, ok. I know there's at least one person out there who is saying, " What the ---- does this have to do with Mary finding work???

Well, first of all, I now get to stay up as late as I want, so a program that starts at 11pm on my local PBS station is now doable. But what really struck me is that the average age of the scientists....leaders in the field...around this discussion table was probably 70. Which suggests that experience, at least in the study of the brain, counts.

Dear readers, I have spent the last week dealing with the fact that I am TOO experienced...and dare I say it...too old...for all of the available jobs in all the industries for which I qualify to work.

When did it become a bad thing to be experienced? And how experienced is too experienced??

Maybe Charlie knows.