I’m 44 and will be made redundant in the new year from my current role largely due to health reasons. I currently work in banking in a middle management role.
I can not stay in the industry as due to my poor health I can’t sustain the long hours and high pressure nature environment. I would like to retrain however due to my health issues I will only be able to work part time and can not do anything overly physical in nature.
I work in a COO team and would say I’m good at lots of things but not great at anything. I started as a cashier in a high street bank at 17 and worked my way up so have no qualifications or degrees.
I am good with people and my skills are good communicator, project planning, ability to grasp concepts quickly and I am good with numbers. Outside of work I am quite creative and enjoy reading, painting and general arts and crafts if that helps.
I am fortunate that I will get a very healthy package and I have a good cushion of savings so salary isn’t important, it’s more finding something that can work with my limitations and that I can go into on a part time or self employed consultancy basis straight after retraining. Any thoughts or ideas gratefully appreciated.