where are all the 40-something people?

in professional services firms? do they all go into cocoons or something? this has bothered me for a long time. You rarely see them.

Law firms seem to be populated entirely by that demographic. Try looking around. You know. With your eyes.

Everyone in law firms is 29 MAX

They either get binned or have worked so hard that they look like they are in their 50s.

That has always been true of investment banks. Guess no one is prepared endlessly to put in the insane hours

yeah but where do they GO?

I always wonder this. Where do all the slightly older people who don't make it to senior management go?

As pensions go the way of the dodo surely we're going to see more and more mid-level jobs occupied by older people who can never leave them.

We are all in the important meetings you don't get invited to ;)

In reality Dux sort of has it. Hardly anyone gets made up in top tier firms in the UK anymore because the fat equity chunters at the top all refuse to retire. So the 40 somethings are either: (i) working as partners at the sort of sh1tshop dux would use and trying not to be driven mad by the torment of dealing with idiots like dux; (ii) abroad; or (iii) in house.

That's the men.

The women either married fat equity chunters (or someone called rupert whose daddy is big in property) or they are in house.

The 40-something women are mainly the PSLs.

The 40-something men are mainly the partners but, as said above, you’ll assume they are at least mid 50s from the way they look.

*waves from home office*

but there aren't that many partners! or inhouse gigs!

I suspect soylent green

Well I'm a 40 something associate in a law firm and share an office with a 60 something senior associate so there are a few of us about.

*waves from cocoon inside a law firm too*

Hey at donny’s point (i)

the men can usually be found in the nearest Evans/Cycle Surgeries near their office

the ladies probably in Hobbs buying chiff dresses

what I found depressing about cc's points was that none of them acknowledged women might be bossing dolla themselves

I hate society

and I hate how instead of not having gender roles any more we now have turbogender roles which mean that the lead singer of chemical romance must be a woman because he wears eyeliner and acknowlegdes the existence of love