• Replies 25 replies
  • Subscribers 34 subscribers
  • Views 396 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Related
Hints and tips
  • To quote someone's message, first select/highlight the relevant text, and then use the Quote button that appears
  • To "mention" someone, type @ followed by the start of the forum name, and choose from the list; that person will get a notification of being mentioned

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? 

Parents

  • I wonder how many of us were unsupported and never knew what options were available?

    I think for many of us older people we were held back by gender and class.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    In my case it was lack of understanding of autism and likely ADHD that held me back. Although I also received daily misogynistic messages that usually contained a “women are useless “ comment in them somewhere. Being told you are lazy and that a parent is “slaving away to keep me … “ didn’t help. Perhaps I would have been a late developer anyway, who knows? We can change only how we are in the present (positive message to self).

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    I think I would still be in a similar situation due to my inability to do maths, tech and art. Back in the day you needed an art O level to do hairdressing, a maths O level to work in a shop as you had to add everything up in your head before ringing it into the till. 

  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    gloss paints used to go yellow because of the linseed oil

    This is making me me smile. My bathroom door and frame which had been painted with oil based gloss in brilliant white had become quite yellow. I was considering getting it repainted but in the meantime I had cataracts removed. My yellowing door and frame instantly became brilliant white without intervention on my part.

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    Its not just the lighting, but what mix of pigments are used in the make up of the paint, crown paints for example use much more pigments in their paints than others in a similar price point. I agree some whites are really sickly looking and others are blindingly brilliant. It also depends on what sort of paint you have, gloss paints have got better but I remember older gloss paints used to go yellow because of the linseed oil.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    I'm the annoying person in a paint aisle who can tell the difference between half a dozen shade of white

    A useful thing to be able to do. 

    I can’t stand certain shades of ‘white’. They may appear to change in different lighting but some are very obviously yellow or green and they can make me feel green. 

Reply Children
  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    gloss paints used to go yellow because of the linseed oil

    This is making me me smile. My bathroom door and frame which had been painted with oil based gloss in brilliant white had become quite yellow. I was considering getting it repainted but in the meantime I had cataracts removed. My yellowing door and frame instantly became brilliant white without intervention on my part.

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    Its not just the lighting, but what mix of pigments are used in the make up of the paint, crown paints for example use much more pigments in their paints than others in a similar price point. I agree some whites are really sickly looking and others are blindingly brilliant. It also depends on what sort of paint you have, gloss paints have got better but I remember older gloss paints used to go yellow because of the linseed oil.