Pressmen are forever. For common people this could sound as a damn, and in fact it is. Journalists will never say because they could never realize, but once a man become a pressman he is marked for ever. First of all, once the official exam is passed and the man is registered on the professional register, there he'll remain until the dead. Even when the pressman reaches retirement the journalist remain a journalist. It doesn't count whether you work or not: if you are journalist you are a journalist and that's that. That's death, maybe, since any person stops to be a normal human being once on the professional register, but this is another story. Since a pressman remains always a pressman, he will be hired even if in retirement. That's the press, baby, the press. And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing.
So, let's take a retired pressman with a long career behind him and a younger pressman with less experience. In modern times newspapers prefer the first category, made by people already trained, with higher professional skills, more sources and a better network. As a result, elder pressmen will get a second life of work. Even if retired they will continue to work, getting both the retirement allowance and the salary. Since they already get the retirement allowance, employers will hired again at same condition but lower wage. They are simply more competitive than younger colleagues, who will be discriminated. Somebody could argue such a practice is unfair. Come on! This is just a demonstration that a pressman is forever.
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