A little time out...

Its not as bad as you think

Isaac

I am soon taking voluntary redundancy after 22 years in the Royal Mail at the decrepid age of 55.

I am getting job offers regularly but I am turning them down because I want to literally retire.

Take my word for it, there are plenty of jobs out there. Just be flexible.

Regards

Mick

 

Re: Its not as bad as you think

Being out of work for the past 2 years I can tell you that what jobs are out there are Low paid - Long Hours - and you treated like a peice of s***.

Employers have got one term of pharse that they love to throw at you as often as they can: If Your Not Happy Here Or The Way You Are being Treated, Then You Know Where The Door Is!!

And then they wonder why we have no Company loyalty.

I feel for you Issac, it is no fun out here and after 6 months, if you partner works, you get NO money of the state. Been There, Got The T-Shirt.
It is a sorry state that this country is in.

Hope you find something soon that is right for you.

How does £5.00/Hour on Nights suit you?

Just about sums it up.

 

Thanks for the responses. As much as a plumber or electrician might earn, I would get bored... I would rather continue in electronic engineering (esp if I can stay in hifi).

When I get back I will be looking for a job for 23-25k or so, which isn't bad for my age.

 

Mark

You said..."Being out of work for the past 2 years I can tell you that what jobs are out there are Low paid - Long Hours - and you treated like a peice of s***. "

No one needs to be out of work for two years. In my town of Swindon, there is an acute shortage of warehouse workers, so get on your bike and work.

I am 55 and have been getting offers well above £5.00 per hour.

You need to be more positive.

Regards

Mick

 

(C) Norman Tebbit circa 1983

 

Mick, you forgot to mention a man of your calibre has a pension fund I guess around £28-40K@ year, so £5@ hour + all those rented houses you rake in the rent from, should just keep you in nap 300's for a while yet I feel.
Maybe you have more time on your hands prehaps a visit to the quiet backwater may be premissable. T.

 

Robbo / Tone

Dishing out sympathy is pointless. If Mark has been out of work for two years then something is wrong.

He needs to get into london where jobs are easy to get.

Regards

Mick

 

i gotta admit, i agree with Mick.
I spent 2.5 years un-employed in my early twenties, purely my own fault!
There was work about but i fell into the rut, if you really want to earn the opertunity is there. It may not be the job you want, but surely better than sitting on yer ass and being skint.

 

Re: Robbo / Tone

Too true, and not only are jobs relatively plentiful up there but there are a very wide variety of opportunities too. You can almost decide to go for any career path and find a company who'll take you on almost regardless of skill level/experience.

BUT not everyone wants to move from where they currently are, for whatever reason... friends, family, etc... Work would really have to be your one and only priority of life if you were to relocate somewhere else solely to get a job. There IS more to life.

I was out of work for 5 weeks earlier on this year. OK, not that long but certainly seemed like a long time to me at the time, being someone who has always been used to being in employment in the past. Having said that, I have been unemployed in the past for 1 or 2 months due to 2 previous redundancies. I was as flexible as I could be and lowered my expectations but still found it hard to get any work earlier on this year. One problem I guess was my lack of access to own transport, so this limited the location where I could work, as well as ruling me out for driving based jobs. Even supermarket shelf stacking jobs were hard to come by. The problem we have where I live is there are lot of people who are in general quite well qualified chasing far too few jobs, decent or otherwise. That's not to say that people who are qualified end up turning their noses up at jobs which don't pay a certain amount, nope people around here generally can't afford that luxuary and are greatful for what they can get, but with that does come a great deal of underlying dissatisfaction with the status quo. Some have resigned themselves to their position because they don't want to move out of the area, others would rather leave the country than have to rellocate to London or some other big metropolis in this country.

Also, when you've previously had a spell in quite a well defined career path and wish to change tact starting to work your way up from botom again, potential employers become very wary of your past experience and some won't even bother inviting you along to an interview based on the fact that they see you as "over qualified". OK yes, the over qualification thing puts them off because they are after someone who can commit to their company long term and in their eyes someone with better qualifications is bound to want to move on quicker if there are no other suitable positions elsewhere in the company. Then on the other hand, we all know that there is no such thing as a job for life these days, so why are they threating so much. Employers can't have it both ways.

 

Mark

There you go.....either get on your bike or get on a train.

London awaits you.

I was once in a restaurant and overheard two waitresses chatting, one made £300 in tips the week before. So no excuses, get to it my son.

Also we are desperate for a window cleaner in this area and you would scoop the pool if you set up your own round. You just need to get off your ass and go for it.

Good luck

Mick

 

Mick
First of all I have no Intention of moving any where near London, for pleasure or for a job.
You mentioned earlier about a wharehouse Worker, that Pays £4.70 in West Yorkshire, No thank you.

I do not believe that anyone should be working for less than £6.00/Hour. I Think it a sick society that promotes such things.

Anyhow, I have as MICK :bub: keeps ramming down my throat, got on my bike and found myself a job. Hopfully it will be permenant this time, having had 2 jobs since being made redundant 2 years ago.

Once again Issac, I wish you well in your quest for a job.

 

Mark

Well done in getting a job.

The point that I am making is that you have to go where the work is and London is suffering from a jobs shortage across the board.

It is down to you whether or not you move or stay put, but sitting down in a town with high unemployment is a pointless occupation.

Opportunties have to be grabbed, they rarely present themselves to you.

You are the architect of your own destiny.

Regards

Mick

 

Sorry to hear about your redundancy Isaac. Here's hoping you come back from your hols and land something really good in the hi-fi field.

I hope you're having a great time, wherever you are.