I am 50. I used to have a decent job but after moving to another part of the UK I have been unable to get a decent job. I work in a very poorly paid job that is going nowhere. I have spent two years applying for better paid, better prospect jobs and although I have been doing ok, and often getting good interview feedback, I have not been offered a job. When I get good feedback I am told, ' 'Great interview, got no feedback on how you could have done better, but there was someone with just a bit more experience than you.'
Thing is, I don't have a specialism. I have always got jobs on transferable skills. But I no longer seem able to do this. There will always be someone with more experience than me. I don't know how far it is my age, or how far it is the move to home working. The areas I don't have experience in are often technical things I could easily pick up quite quickly, but they would require me learning on the job from someone else, and now that staff are not in the office much, maybe managers just don't want to invest in doing that. So although I may have more experience in other areas, the need to pick up this one technical area may seem like too much of a barrier to them?
Anyway, whatever the reason, I have given up on getting a job just by applying for jobs in the normal way. So what the hell are my options? Has anyone any ideas? Are there any high in-demand jobs I could retrain for? (Not healthcare - I am very squeamish - or teaching or IT). Anyone got any ideas?