HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Sometime last summer, Andrew Beck says he stopped looking for work, stymied as he got nowhere in his job search.
The Wethersfield resident was laid off in March 2009 as a vice president of marketing and communications at a health care system. After more than three years of unsuccessfully looking for a job, Beck, 61, said he believed he was repeatedly passed over by employers hiring younger workers who had not been jobless for years.
"It is very frustrating. It is very disheartening," he said. "It's not what I planned to do."
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