They Fired Me On My 55th Birthday After 29 Years But Three Months Later The Company Was Fighting To Survive

Albert Walker and the Blueprint

My name is Evelyn Carter, and they fired me on my fifty-fifth birthday.

Not the week before. Not the week after. The exact day.

At 9:15 on a rainy Tuesday morning in October, after twenty-nine years at Hayes Capital Partners, I sat across from Daniel Hayes in his corner office on the fortieth floor and listened as he explained continue reading …