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Older people - what career would you have pursued, if you had support, money and resources?

Marianne72

I had this idea following TheCatWoman's question about career v job. Older people  might feel poignant about a past lost in the mists of Time. Regret is human but can be destructive. It can also lead to enlightening insights. I think of my working life as a string of pearls rather than a single diamond solitaire. It was not the job alone, but people I worked with, homes I had during each period and what I learned about myself as a result. What are your experiences? 

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  • This is what I am working with my local council to raise awareness of.

    I didn't get a lot of help from people when I was younger (I don't mean my direct family / I mean everyone else). Groups of friends, teachers, career guidance.  I still think I am often being misled when I listen to others opinions for too long. 

    I am the wrong side of 45, I have a few missing pension years but I also had a lot of employers taking me for a ride. I would have liked someone when I was younger to explain to me why exactly we go to work, what a pension is for how ni works. I observe the world no frills in mechanical form, I can tell you that at the end of the 20th Century and still a lot of employers and employed teams are and have been breakign the law.  

    I trained to work in museums, I am have a masters qualification in that I love collections and dinosaurs and facts. Every day could become numbing if the pain of what you didn't do eats you up. So youv'e just got to keep doing what you can.

    The problem now is that everyone is hustling, in the workplace, public everywhere, using force. For sensitive thoughtful or older more tolerant people how are they supposed to cope with that? 

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  • This is what I am working with my local council to raise awareness of.

    I didn't get a lot of help from people when I was younger (I don't mean my direct family / I mean everyone else). Groups of friends, teachers, career guidance.  I still think I am often being misled when I listen to others opinions for too long. 

    I am the wrong side of 45, I have a few missing pension years but I also had a lot of employers taking me for a ride. I would have liked someone when I was younger to explain to me why exactly we go to work, what a pension is for how ni works. I observe the world no frills in mechanical form, I can tell you that at the end of the 20th Century and still a lot of employers and employed teams are and have been breakign the law.  

    I trained to work in museums, I am have a masters qualification in that I love collections and dinosaurs and facts. Every day could become numbing if the pain of what you didn't do eats you up. So youv'e just got to keep doing what you can.

    The problem now is that everyone is hustling, in the workplace, public everywhere, using force. For sensitive thoughtful or older more tolerant people how are they supposed to cope with that? 

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