What jobs for 60+ year olds?

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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?

I started a new job in my 60s. I am part of a team who make vaccines. Granted, I am the oldest trainee but no one cares because I am judged solely on my work and rightly so.

Sound interesting. How did you get into it, qualifications, area if the country?

Online customer service. Go do all the free Hubspot or Zendesk training, there is loads online. It's a sitting down job for those who can spell well.

Exactly!! I'm 60 this year, I've been using Photoshop for years to create designs for my Etsy shop. The Internet has been a god send for me, as I have a spinal condition and meant I could give up retail work and have online shops instead. I'm too tired to go back into the work place, I've been working since I was 17, there's no way I could do care work or cleaning. It's too physically demanding for many older people. I think more computer lessons would help many.

Haha I'm am 56 so not far off 60 plus. Why do you think I can't work with computers? I'm an excel whizz and have worked with computers and learnt different systems as an accountant all my life!

Lawyer here. AI is changing the legal field, might result in fewer roles but there will be an increase in roles using and understanding AI, but absolutely not going to replace all the human lawyers. Sorry 🤣🤣

It’s absolutely a concern when you think that many people are paying mortgages until retirement age and may still have dependant children into their late 50’s so have to continue to earn at the same rate as they did in their 30’s and 40’s when well paying jobs were more readily available to them.

Headteachers are often 50+ and some into their 60’s. ( tho realise you can’t suddenly train to be one).

Neighbours locally:
work in hospitality (events)
MD of a wood company
Estate agent (own business and working for an EA, including conducting house viewings)
Work at the museum
Beautician
Teacher
Director in a large military engineering company ( UK division, company based in Amsterdam.
Eduction Adviser
Director of Education (LA)
Accounts Manager (foods)
Senior Food Scientist

The more I think about it, the more I don’t understand your question.

They do the range of jobs they’ve trained for, that they have always done.

Or they have retired ( one teacher now works for an events company) just to have a less pressured role.

I'm an employment solicitor. There are certainly elements of my role like drafting contracts that AI can take over but ultimately my role is really assessing what my client presents to me and making a judgment call on whether they will win or lose, or advising them what to do next taking into account a longer term strategy. AI isn't (currently) capable of this and as long as human beings remain as Employment Judges then this part of my role isn't going to go.

It's the admin/support staff of law firms who are becoming superfluous. My firm only has two support staff for 20 solicitors because our case management software is so sophisticated now we rarely need assistance. I.e. don't retrain as a legal secretary with a view of doing that in your older age!

@TizerorFizz jobs that are not computerised? Are all us over 60's trembling technophobe too scared to touch the computer? I think you'll find most of us have been using computers in the work place for at least 25 years 🙄🙄

How exactly can all desk jobs be automated? I have a desk job that involves alot of human input, logic and management.

Also i'm in my 30's wheras most of my colleagues are in their 50's/60's...

maymadness I really enjoy it. I don't have a science background but used to work in food manufacturing which has transferable skills.

I'm interested to know which specialities are automated?

The point everyone is missing is that a wider solution needs to come.

The government can't allow unemployment on that scale. It would result in low taxes being paid, benefits being paid out and the economy crashing which isn't sustainable.

Jobs that aren’t computerised?! Wtf? People in their 50s and 60’s have likely been using computers since they first became mainstream in the workplace in the 1980’s (if of course they do office work etc).

People being ‘older’ in their 50/60s doesn’t mean their brains shrivel up and they become incompetent idiots who should be relegated to certain non-computerized jobs that some people are spouting on here. There is some awful ageism and ignorance on this thread (and no, I’m not in the age bracket OP refers to either).

I assumed that by 'not computerised' she meant that jobs that use computers are more likely to become done by AI than jobs that don't.

I didn't take it to mean the over 50s can't use a computer.

As per usual we have a government that doesn't know its overstuffed backside from it's elbow along with a left hand that doesn't know what the right hand is doing as most of them have never done a day's physical labour in their pampered lives.

So on the one hand we've got the government (and the likes of Far.tage) banging on about how working from home is the root of all evil, alongside the government saying let's tip these lazy wasters out of their wheelchairs and into work but no extra adjustments there, plus we're all now going to have to work until we're 75 and then drop dead in harness.

Do MPs have the logic bits of their brains removed before entering the hallowed halls of Westminster?!

I'm tempted when I retire to go and work for Waitrose part time (we live in Waitroseland so about 6+ stores in easy commute. Salary is poor, but you do get a discount in both Waitrose and JL - and that'll probably do us fine.

Thank You

I am just 60 so OPs thread interested Me.
>> Off to check it all out now . I am good at spelling thankfully.

Umm most of the senior directors and the CEO at my workplace are in their 50s and 60s. Does everyone else work in Logan's Run or something?

I got a job age 58 at a Dagis (Swedish child care). It's contract work but pretty regular - there is a mixture of ages.

I appreciate that CEOs and very senior people are in their 50s/60s but that's what 1 in 10 of all 50/60 year olds? What about the other 9 in 10.

I was pondering this question as quite a few of my friends are being made redundant and are struggling to find work. Often the reasons for redundancies are mergers of dept together due to not needing as much staff. We live in London so people still have large mortgage and primary aged kids. They can't afford to work part time in Tescos, but they've also never expected to as they are all professionals.

I agree with the complaint about the government. It's great to extend pension age but where are the jobs to keep up with that. Mortgages are high nowadays especially in the South East. There seems to be a complete lack of critical engagement with this issue.

At 60 I got a part time job as an immigration caseworker. Civil Service, all the other new starters were much younger. Public sector employers can be pretty flexible re age.

Everyone in my office is over 60 except one. We do advice work, telephone helpline, assisting with benefit forms, support for older people with alcohol dependency etc.

I’m 59 and a HR Manager for a wealth managers . My friends of similar are - accounts manager in a law firm, payroll for a large corp, hairdresser, office premises manager, clothing store manager, payments in a large investment bank, accountant in insurance firm,

In my company I’d say 35% of the staff are 50+ and that figure is higher in our regional offices. It’s only London head office where the staff are a lot younger.