Joe Turner, the Job Search Guy

If you're an "older" job hunter, more than likely, you already know that the ultra competitive job search process in today's economy is especially hard on you. Part of the challenge you're facing is a major generation gap between Baby Boomer job hunters and the Gen-Xer hiring managers of today. As Block noted, "30-somethings don't want to hire their parents. Unfortunately, that's how we often come across - as their parents."

You can succeed during interviews with younger hiring managers, but you'll want to think and act differently. Here are five areas to start with:

CareerBuilder.com writer

The average American spends a lot of time at work -- more than 1800 hours a year -- but do you love your job or are you frequently daydreaming about being somewhere (or anywhere) else?

Take this quiz to find out how satisfied you are with your career:

Rachel Zupek, CareerBuilder.com writer

At some point in their lives, most people will make at least one career change. It might be a slight adjustment, like to a different position within the company. Or, it might be a colossal change, to a completely different industry or sector.

Whatever the change may be, make sure you're ready for it. Check out the following successful career changes and see how these people made their dreams come true.

Everyone's looking for a way to pick up a few quick bucks in this economy, making many wonder if selling cosmetics is as easy and fulfilling of a career as it is touted to be. Maybe or maybe not, say a variety of sources. A few cases of cosmetics won't necessarily get you the promised Cadillac after a couple of months (or years), and, if pursued improperly, your eyeshadow enterprise could put you in worse shape than before. However, if you're careful, crafty, cunning, and a cosmetics queen anyway, there's a chance that investing in door-to-door cosmetics companies could boost your self-esteem while putting a few extra dollars in your bank account.

by C. Howie for AOL Find a Job

It's hot, dry and dusty on a spring day at the Port of Los Angeles, but driver Hugo Salcedo is getting his feet wet as he hoses down the hood of his 80,000 lb truck. It's routine maintenance and just one of the tasks Salcedo, 37, has done every week of the seven years he's been driving. Being a truck driver may seem an unforgiving career to some, but to Salcedo it gives him the freedom of the road and a lifetime of travel.

Best time is baseball season, he says. Though today he sports a USC Trojans hat, the profession that takes him across 48 states allows him to catch the Red Sox in Boston, the Marlins in Miami and his hometown Dodgers in Los Angeles. Over the course of several months his job will take him from "Long Beach to Kentucky, Kentucky to New York, New York to Florida, Florida all the way across the country to Hayward, California."