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junglegusset
Veteran
- Location
- Wirral - The Insular Peninsula
I'm forty. Don't really know where that leaves me. Sounds like mobile bike mechanic is a no no then.
New Career ideas?
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junglegusset
Veteran
- Location
- Wirral - The Insular Peninsula
This is the kind of out of the box thinking I need!
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junglegusset
Veteran
- Location
- Wirral - The Insular Peninsula
Funnily enough I've been listening the HMHB a fair bit recently! 'Footprints' is one of the most entertaining things I've heard in a while.
Firestorm
Veteran
- Location
- Southend on Sea
Depending on what exactly you did in the Probation service , it sounds like Social work could be a feasible tranistion.
You would need to take another degree but there are plenty who do this as a career change
You would need to take another degree but there are plenty who do this as a career change
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junglegusset
Veteran
- Location
- Wirral - The Insular Peninsula
I think that will be a case of 'out of the frying pan.......' I want to avoid public sector, at least whilst the government are sodomising it.
[QUOTE 2886661, member: 9609"]Self employed gardener / grass cutter / handyman - the country is full of old rich people in need of somebody to look after the garden / house.[/quote]
Hey, we have a gardener/handyman, we are far from rich and far from old thank you very much.
Hey, we have a gardener/handyman, we are far from rich and far from old thank you very much.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Don't you believe it. I've witnessed the careers advice cycle complete at least two full circles in the past thirty years. Kids still get their twenty minutes from someone who gives them mission critical advice based upon their own limited experience though that someone has gone through being a teacher to being an external careers advisor back to being a teacher back to being an outsourced careers advisor back to being a teacher in a school with a 'careers mark' motif in their letter head which means that the kids have got their advice within an institution that has paid to have inadequate advice accredited by a body interested in little more than the revenue raised by accrediting as many institutions as possible.
There is still some shocking advice given to pupils and successful careers advice is achieved more through good luck than good management. I'm currently encountering lots of actor wannabees whose aspirations have been entirely generated by one pupil who's recently starred in a critically acclaimed small budget film and whose ego has outgrown the perceived need for education.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Well that limits the possibilities for you then. The private sector is hardly awash with educational/social/probation posts that are on par never mind better than existing public sector posts.
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junglegusset
Veteran
- Location
- Wirral - The Insular Peninsula
That's why I am considering re - training.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Personnel/human resources?
After you with Anna Friel!
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junglegusset
Veteran
- Location
- Wirral - The Insular Peninsula
Too office based, and my current HR dept aren't exactly a good advert. currently work in a residential unit, it's a mix of working with people, running a building, inter-agency work, some teaching/training it's a shame it's coming to end because it's a good mix of stuff and doesn't get boring. Plus it's 8 miles from home, perfect commuting distance, all off the main roads.
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junglegusset
Veteran
- Location
- Wirral - The Insular Peninsula
Maybe a better way of framing this would to be to ask what areas are in need of employees.
Over The Hill
Guru
- Location
- Ridden off into the sunset
I am not too clear on the OP. Do you think a private firm will not have your job anymore or is it that you just don't want to work for a private firm? If it is the latter then really I don't think there is much around in the Civil Service.
Lots of roles have different ways in at your age that are not open to younger people. I went from being a self employed jeweller to a property lawyer aged 40 and found a fairly easy way in.
On the one hand good to hang on until pushed (and perhaps a decent payoff), on the other you could be using the time now to re-train. I worked in a call centre for 6 months while I undertook my legal training. Better if you can sort that now while coasting to a close.
Lots of roles have different ways in at your age that are not open to younger people. I went from being a self employed jeweller to a property lawyer aged 40 and found a fairly easy way in.
On the one hand good to hang on until pushed (and perhaps a decent payoff), on the other you could be using the time now to re-train. I worked in a call centre for 6 months while I undertook my legal training. Better if you can sort that now while coasting to a close.
This is Cafe, not C&D, so I'll just say that private sector employment is quite different to the public sector, and self-employment is hugely different. If you have spent all your working life as a teacher then probation officer, you need to be sure that you can adapt to the different pressures and attitudes - saying that "the government are sodomising the public sector", for instance, goes down like a lead balloon in the private sector. Some public sector technical skills are often valued elsewhere but IME the generic skills are not; and the perceived baggage of 'public sector sickness records' etc can be a real problem for anyone trying to transfer.
I say this as someone who spent ten years in local authorities before I left to set up my own business. It was the right decision for me, but it wouldn't be for everyone.
