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Always try and do something you enjoy, fuck the money ... if you really enjoy your work you don't need a lot of money.
Plenty of unqualified jobs in social care. Some are shifts wiping arses but plenty are interesting fulfilling roles. Looking at jobs in day services for people with learning disabilities or mental health issues or things like unpaid work supervisors with Probation being a middle aged middle is positively an advantage. Just don't expect to earn a fortune.
I was made redundant at 51 and did a return to social work process so ended up in almost exactly the same job I'd left 23 years previously. Quite a big work change for me although doing a job for which I was already qualified probably doesn't count!
I think I've said before how my friend's brother was a senior coroner and gave it up in his fifties to be an Ocado driver and has never been happier. However, the job that made him unhappy all those years paid off the mortgage in the first place.
Less well paid is an option, although I've been fortunate to be able to work part time for the last few years, which is obvs already lower paid to an extent. I might work full-time in a lower paid job to take home the same I do now though.
The challenge I've got at the moment isn't workload in the part time hours so much as being involved in lots of bitty pieces of work, none of which are particularly simple, so re-focussing on the relevant detail in each area in the available time is what's getting me I think.
Significant change after being made redundant at 51 is helpful to hear thank you.
Am I right in thinking in "normal times" you make up a proportion of your income from gigging? I'm wondering if in future that's something I might do if I could - combining a less mentally taxing day job with playing keys for a wedding band maybe. No idea if that's feasible.
I'm always full of admiration when I hear your tale, it's awesome.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Then I can do virtually everything.
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
I literally have no idea what else I would do that would pay me the same, give me the job security and range of opportunities that I have now as well as the perks that I get.
It also saddens me that it's come to this, so because of that I'll probably stay and hope my industry and profression gets better.