What jobs for 60+ year olds?

[Llhvj]

Reading all the threads about redundancies, AI taking over jobs but pension age going up - what jobs are all the 55/60 plus year olds meant to have? In my own company, most of the people are in the 20s/30s age bracket, same with DHs work place. What jobs are all these people meant to be doing?

Part time retail

Hospital Porter, Cleaner & Bank staff.
Or that's what it looks like at our hospital.

NHs admin, school admin, anything that values their experience and is not computerized! Warehouse work? Or retrain for a shortage job - engineering, electrician etc. Jobs where we import others to do it. Care home work?

Trouble with a lot of the jobs mentioned is they are all quite physical and low paid. If lawyers or HR jobs are meant to be swallowed by AI, are all those people seriously expected to become hospital porters?

"Not computerized"????
Oh for goodness sake, this is people in their 50s and 60s, many, many of whom have been using computers for the vast majority of their working lives- if they were in that sort of role.

I think the comment about not computerized was meant to be about AI take over

Echo the other comment about the physicality of many of those jobs mentioned - I am incredibly fit compared to my peers but I would not / could not spend the time on my knees that plumbing involves. My friend who is a cleaner will likely lose that job because her artritis is so bad

I'm in my 60s and work as an IT programme manager.

OK, fair enough!

We'll have a lot of people under retirement age claiming sickness benefits.

Exactly - plumbers, cleaners, carers, warehouse all tend to find things harder as they get to mid 50s. That's not a criticism but I struggle to understand what type of work people are supposed to be getting when retirement is 67 and apparently all desk jobs will be automated.

Please tell Bill Gates, who is 70 that he's past it for anything computerised.

I'm retraining at the moment as a funeral arranger. Lots of my lovely colleagues are older than me.

It's a really lovely job and I wish I had done this a long time ago!

I worked full time in paid employment until well into my 60s. I'm over state pension age now and self employed part time.

I'm 64 and doing part-time retail. Its odd how all the above suggestions are all physically demanding just at a time when we are physically slowing down. In my teens-30's I did an office job mainly sitting at a desk, 40-50 it was a children's nursery part standing and part sitting. Age 57+ it's been retail, on my feet all day, its struck me a few times that I organised my life completely the wrong way round.

Why would HR and law jobs be 'swallowed by AI'? I think you have swallowed some scaremongering bullshit!

apparently all desk jobs will be automated.

Don't be ridiculous.

My Mum is 71 and still works 45 -50 per week in a care role for people with learning disabilities. She is pondering retiring in a few years, but maybe not it is a physical job but she keeps going. She is amazing.

I dont know longer term but a
as jobs become automated, I think the further you are in your career the longer you will be able to remain in work. You are more likely to have some of the soft skills that only come with experience e and nuance that are harder to replicate.
I think the issue will start with younger people not able to get those first rung jobs which will go first.

In terms of physical work people need to succession plan. If you are a plumber you need an apprentice to do the physical stuff, but you still oversee/sign off and perhaps have the client base, branding etc to sell on to them.

Re. question of automation, I definitely already have a few friends in their 50s who have been made redundant and are struggling to find anything else. Those of my friends who have hit the top fo their career say that their specialists are certainly being automated and while they are fine, they definitely dont need to employ the same number of people and it is often those in 40s/50s who are mid level that are struggling.

@Llhvj Some law work might go but representing someone in court? Probably not. Also AI cannot accurately replace a conversation with a solicitor. I’d be expecting to continue with a legal career.

I do get that people use computers but I was referring to work being done by the computer! Not operating a computer programme. Also many people will have to stay fitter! Plenty do manage to.

I think that it would be brilliant to have more older people working in primary schools as TAs and classroom helpers. Especially given our relative lack of multigenerational living now, kids don’t get relationships with grandparents as much and vice versa, it would definitely benefit both parties. Obviously funding these roles is an issue.

All our school bus drivers seem to be late 50s/60s+, some of them do the school runs to also supplement their pensions. They work for a local taxi company but only do the school runs (small minibuses).

People aged 60 plus don't just disappear in my sector (NHS management). They keep on working. Some may go part time if they are able to. Others do retire early (NHS pension kicks in for certain people). But the majority just carry on.

I work in insurance. We are quite active in recruiting people in their 50s and 60s for customer facing roles. Pay is not bad and camaraderie is good. Long time on the phone though. With some training as well companion roles for dementia sufferers pays OK and is quite good work- find a patient who has the same interests of you and the work can be really good.

NHS and school admin is computerised with data feeding into national databases.