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?

100% that is what our economy is based on now. That and over priced housing stock, that people who work part time in retail can't afford to buy.
I blame Margaret Thatcher! (for everything)

I work in welfare rights. Someone told me the other day that a friend of theirs completed a PIP application using ChatGPT. I'm looking forward to hearing how that went!

I'll be 70 next month and am still working, but will be retiring at the end of September. I'm finding it harder to remember new stuff and have to look things up a lot more often...

Yes. Why not? Are they considered too good to do such jobs?

Just my bad interviewing skills 😁

Second interviewer must have been at least 30 year’s younger than me and asked where I saw myself in five year’s time 😖

Nothing wrong with being a porter but it’s not really what years of slogging at law school was for (not that I went to law school). Maybe some lawyers love their job and don’t want to be porters or anything else?

Me too.

Not many people dream of being a porter but if your back's against the wall...

Try customer service jobs in your local council, and in the NHS. If you can sit at a desk, have some basic IT and good communication skills there are jobs. After redundancy, I got a new basic level clerical job at 50, got promoted, then took retirement at 60. After that I got a couple of low level admin part time jobs, retired fully at 64. All public sector.

The thing that puts me off that type of job (as an older person) is I can’t understand what people are saying on the phone a lot of the time. I’m not deaf but people on phones asking me questions just seems to turn into a muffled white noise. It’s made me afraid of answering phones on a professional level. 🙇‍♀️

Working for charity or health and social care, bank or part time. I work for a charity in HR, most employees are over 55, one has just retired at 77. It's a lovely work environment. I'm in my 30s, one of the youngest employees. Lot's of people still work over 60, plenty of employers will want their experience, unfortunately expect lower pay.

I can understand that, I struggle as a customer nowadays understanding some operators. Hospital reception could be an option? I always found face to face ok, I was on a council help desk, then in a housing office for a while. Local authorities have lots of departments, most have admin support. Hospitals likewise, and ward clerks.

Good suggestion from @SallyS6 re charities as well.

The software might be cheaper, but the robots aren't.

In my industry (financial services) lots of people tend to shift to part time or short term contract work as they age. However there is definitely a big raft of people who have lost some mental accuity, adaptability, capacity to learn new ways of working and memory by their 60s and its a huge struggle, they aren't very employable in our industry. We have to normalise accepting lower wages as we age and are no longer working at our peak.

I personally am saving every penny i can to limit the extent i need to work in my 60s

I will never forget hiring a guy in his early 60s. His CV had loads of experience but his way of working was archaic and unproductive. He would print everything (despite being asked to reduce his paper use), mark up documents in pencil then painstakingly slowly type changes (he was disappointed that the team did not have secretaries to do this).He was really slow at excel & basically anything on a computer. He was really clever and technically experienced but the junior could just do 5 times more than him in the time he spent avoiding technology.

It's a beautiful job.
I get to help families at some of the lowest points of their lives.
Helping to organise someone's final journey is an honour, a joy and a privilege.

I do seriously wish I had done this years ago.