No jobs for over 50s out there

The Catwoman wrote:I think they only want people who have just left school.

Archangel wrote:The fact is that it is hard to prove ageism was the cause of failing to pass a job interview.

Have any of you suspected ageism was the reason why you couldn't find a job?

Archangel wrote:I'm in my 50s and there are no jobs out there for the over 50s - especially for longterm unemployed over 50s. I applied for a job a few years ago with Age UK and all the staff I saw there looked under 40! I never got the job.

The fact is that it is hard to prove ageism was the cause of failing to pass a job interview.

Have any of you suspected ageism was the reason why you couldn't find a job?

Hi Archangel,

I can relate to that as i am now in my 60's, and kind of good in one way, but rather sadly been wishing my life away on route to state pension age.

In my 50s i made thousands of job applications which when i examined them over the years most were just repeated applications, same companies, same positions, same scumbag recruiters supplying to them. But there weren't, they were just doing a data sheep mining process to restore their pens with fresh sheep until the next herd got fired or no doubt, in many cases just left. Jobs market in UK and now in many parts of USA is a bloody disgrace. Sure, many available if your fully retired with a big fat personal pension and if they want, go work in BQ or that Bakers and the like for shirt buttons. The mortgage free crowd with personal pension pots  never stop working as always making a profit, no matter how low their income maybe.

Major problem society has now and in the future will be the extortionate rents I and many others are tied into vs job incomes which will need to be huge in many areas and as we all know if there is one thing significant with incomes across the UK, its there are too many that are stupidly low.

That cannot change until such a time a huge surge in manufacturing or the next thing better than a PC or TV is invented and by UK Ltd and not being made in bloody China. Dont think i will ever see that in my life time though, and already too late...for me. But hey ho, a good old course to ease my mental health on how to build a paper plane in a team will set me free o the right path to glory days £$.


Employers can just pick and choose and guess what age group they will go for, younger all the time and for many reasons.
I can't state what i did for work, but was multi skilled in specialist field in technology with 28 years experience.Once 2005 hit my whole life slowly went down the crapa up until 2008, and then gradually got worse. Many redundancies, followed by many temp jobs. And many signing on and off the dole.


In my old line of work, its case of whose qualified, and who can we get cheapest 9/10 times the experience people will not want to work for sod all, so in comes the new younger crowd mortgaged up-to their ears and likely to be far more loyal, employers know this and its bingo time for them.



While the deluded out-there trying to get us all working for rice grain will promote this thought "but look at all the experience you have." Reliance upon that went out many years ago. Someone needs to inform the moron roaches of that.

Sorry for my rant

The Catwoman wrote:I think they only want people who have just left school.

Ignatius wrote:Of late I've noticed an increase in older workers when I'm in shops so some employers must be age blind.

Those without can look forward to stacking shelves or delivering takeaways into their 70's. Don't forget, the age at which you can take private pensions is soon to increase from 55 to 57. Bet that age increases again.

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Way my personal pension has performed I am looking at 107 years old. So plenty of supermarket shopping trolley attending in the pissing rain for me. Or, their other great high skilled, high wage economy: Garden centre leaflet hand out clerk. At-least I will have time to retrain then.

jobberpw wrote:

Archangel wrote:I'm in my 50s and there are no jobs out there for the over 50s - especially for longterm unemployed over 50s. I applied for a job a few years ago with Age UK and all the staff I saw there looked under 40! I never got the job.

The fact is that it is hard to prove ageism was the cause of failing to pass a job interview.

Have any of you suspected ageism was the reason why you couldn't find a job?

Hi Archangel,

I can relate to that as i am now in my 60's, and kind of good in one way, but rather sadly been wishing my life away on route to state pension age.

In my 50s i made thousands of job applications which when i examined them over the years most were just repeated applications, same companies, same positions, same scumbag recruiters supplying to them. But there weren't, they were just doing a data sheep mining process to restore their pens with fresh sheep until the next herd got fired or no doubt, in many cases just left. Jobs market in UK and now in many parts of USA is a bloody disgrace. Sure, many available if your fully retired with a big fat personal pension and if they want, go work in BQ or that Bakers and the like for shirt buttons. The mortgage free crowd with personal pension pots  never stop working as always making a profit, no matter how low their income maybe.

Major problem society has now and in the future will be the extortionate rents I and many others are tied into vs job incomes which will need to be huge in many areas and as we all know if there is one thing significant with incomes across the UK, its there are too many that are stupidly low.

That cannot change until such a time a huge surge in manufacturing or the next thing better than a PC or TV is invented and by UK Ltd and not being made in bloody China. Dont think i will ever see that in my life time though, and already too late...for me. But hey ho, a good old course to ease my mental health on how to build a paper plane in a team will set me free o the right path to glory days £$.


Employers can just pick and choose and guess what age group they will go for, younger all the time and for many reasons.
I can't state what i did for work, but was multi skilled in specialist field in technology with 28 years experience.Once 2005 hit my whole life slowly went down the crapa up until 2008, and then gradually got worse. Many redundancies, followed by many temp jobs. And many signing on and off the dole.


In my old line of work, its case of whose qualified, and who can we get cheapest 9/10 times the experience people will not want to work for sod all, so in comes the new younger crowd mortgaged up-to their ears and likely to be far more loyal, employers know this and its bingo time for them.  



While the deluded out-there trying to get us all working for rice grain will promote this thought "but look at all the experience you have." Reliance upon that went out many years ago. Someone needs to inform the moron roaches of that.

Sorry for my rant

Archangel wrote:The only places I see over 45s working are in supermarkets. Mainly middle age women. I have yet to see an "old man" working at Tesco.

By the way, the application process for even a shit job at Tesco etc is long and hard. An hour long online multiple answer questionnaire to test your mental aptitude for a shelf-stacking job.

I did it twice and failed, and I have a degree. So I don't know what the hell that test is meant to be looking for.