To ask for guidance re semi retirement . Posting here for traffic.

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Ex Best Interests assessor here.

Semi retired 5 years ago and now live rurally
Main city 1,5 hours away .. local seaside town 10 mins( no parking in summer)

loved my career with a passion but left at 55 due to burn out
That and Medical Social Worker was my only job s.

I have adhd and excelled in these jobs as they were my passion and utter hyperfoccuss.

Living rurally the jobs available are mostly hospitality, care work and cleaning.

i am not a common sense sort of person and caused chaos in local hotel tho I waa told the customers loved me and i got heavy tips

i have been cleaning for 3 years but now at 60 i am struggling to do such a physical job

i need to work a few hours a week

has anyone else been in a similar position? V limited job market where you lack the skill set.
I also struggle to concentrate with a job that bores me and therefore sometimes do a bad job!

i either need to crack on and fulfil self via hobbies / study ( and try and do better n focus) ?
or
find a job that fulfils somehow ?
my hobby was my job almost before as I was passionate about it .

I have thought about re hab work ( which is avalible)
The care plans , work with the team would be a doddle but as i lack practical sense the actual care side .. well Id be bad! Like helping someone to shower would be comedy capers . What i mean is i can do thinking and planning but ive been told all my life i lack common sense - which is true.

i guess i am asking if there is any guidance for neuro atypical folk ( who had a v specialised career) out there re semi retirement ?
job not good at / plus study to keep interested
v
go back to the world i know! ( my registration to practice is now lapsed so i could only do some roles)

Gp reception type work? You’d be kept busy and a lot of processes to follow.?

Good idea . Computer and me are not friends tho . I used to have to do my recording alone after hours quite a lot to focus.

I absolutely love stress and legal processes.

If you can do cleaning you can do practical
stuff so care work should be possible but if you’re struggling physically then it’s probably not the solution.

If you didn’t need the money, you could look at training to work for the CAB. Lots of legal stuff, lots of processes and problem solving.

Any opportunity for Agency care assessor type roles covering rural area where you live?

NowItsSpring · that sounds fab !! Creative Too . Maybe id have to join a team as a carer initially as i no longer have my social work registration ( needs updates regularly to illustrate competence) but i still have my cqsw. ( certificate of qualification in sw)

Do you have any hobbies/passions? Any opportunities for paid work there, even at a low level?

I was going to say exactly what @NowItsSpring said about care agency assessor role or similar.

https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=bd26db0d5f388e81
freelance care assessor!

I dont mind low level at all . Its that i find some tasks that are easy traditionally v hard.
like i find complex work easy and exiting but easy work harder. In supervision i used to ask my boss why this was the case .. now i understand more .

Parish Clerk, you can often wfh in the smaller parishes, anything from 6 hours a month upwards. Every parish council needs one. I used to interact with loads of them in a previous role. There are lots of people who retired from professional jobs doing the job.

Hobbies are horse riding, the sea. Music, cooking, home design, colours .

Clerk to school governors? It will be a bit paper work heavy but very part time

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i also did this role ( the sw side ) in hospital .

I feel your pain, OP. I have a vv similar work trajectory, late diagnosis of ADHD and while I don't need £ I do need more structure and dopamine in my life.

How about parole hearing officer? There was a tv show about parole hearings in the autumn and it looks so rich in dopamine and legal work.

Also that 'named adult' thing, (can't remember name of it) for young people who've been arrested and need a competent adult ?

Or MEGA cleaning - after a death in a house or ex hoarders, a team goes in all suited and masked and cleans everything.

Or death doula? There's training for this and then you can work privately for families

Let me know what you end up doing!

one issue is i think faster than i can type amd am a very impatient computer user.
i had a dicta phone for reports until i had no choice but to type my own . Many many were done in my own time due ro repeates errors . On the wards I recorded by hand . Much better!

anythinginapinch omg we sound v similar and i love yr suggestion s!!

anythinginapinch i was actually an informal celebrant for naming ceremonies, post wedding vow s ceremony and handfasting and funreals. Since i lost my df I couldn’t seem to do them .

A death doula definitely resonates with me

Death doula I did the training and it was sooooo interesting and a good experience everyone should do it! Its high stress, high interpersonal skills work. So youre working "in the moment" in a flow state. You've probably found this already lwdwtraining.uk/our-training-events/

I was v lucky as I had my own business didn't realise I had adhd but it drove many business decisions... that turned out to be good ones. Get staff in v early for a start-up to do the admin (cos i knew I was crap at at other- I thought this was a prank found character flaw, turned out a good decision! it) was which left me free to do big creative thinking, for example. Always new ideas and plans ... which, without me intending to, resulted in growth. Not ego driven or greedy - I didn't work harder than anyone, just as I was interested in new ideas and trying something else, and I appointed good people early, meant my business just grew and grew. I retired at 53 and am ... bored!!

I've found a) hanging out with children b) playing bowls in the summer and c) pottery, gives me just about enough. But having skills expertise and a good "gut", I do keep thinking there must be more to life. If only I could find it. I hate my symptoms of taking xyz up in a big way, getting really good at it, and then - poof. Not interested anymore at all ever. Pottery is the only "craft" I've stuck with cos you never make the same thing twice.

It's bloody hard.

anythinginapinch · i so relate to your post
i too feel bored after an intense career.
Your last paragraph sounds identical to how i operate and feel .

xx