Are you middle-aged and not working? ( Archived) (81)

Thank´s alot!!!

I understand what you meant, even here it is like that. If you tell some people you are unemployed, they assume that you are worthless or just siphoning off of the system and the politicians in their little ivory towers have no clue about how being unemployed affects an individuals life.

Good luck with your search too Tomcat!

Hi, want to comment on the well educated gal, with all the experience having a hard time finding work.

I have been out of work for over 2 years due to health reasons unfortunately, but have interviewed for many jobs. I learned that I actually had to tone down my resume for any chances to get a job at a lower level than I was actually qualified for.

The reason is that I too am over qualified for many jobs but chose to apply for lower level jobs due to my health issues.

It helped to tone down my resume, not actually omit anything but not elaborate so much on the details. Its not my favorite way of doing things but it did get me interviews and left be feeling real crappy.

In the long run I am in school at almost age 50 and hopefully will be graduating soon and taking the state boards for my nursing license.

Good luck to all
Donna

what up red baaaaank!!

welcome to CS

The change required is go where the work is and stop competing with other people similar to you in experience and circumstance.



I don't send letters. I go where the work is or, used to. Now I am where the work is. Few do this and in remote areas employers will not hire over the phone for semi skilled help as they cannot afford to ship the person there and back if it doesn't work out so they wait for a person who is willing to make the trip and is acceptable in experience (sometimes experience means owning an alarm clock).

Got an inside tip from my best friend and walked into his concrete company and spoke to the owner and gave him my bullet resume with phone numbers of people who would vouch for me. He said if I was a friend of so and so I was ok with him but was full up and couldn't just fire somebody. I said 'why not, I'm worth it' and next thing he asked me when I could start. I stood up, pulled my work gloves out of my back pocket and said 'now.'

See, I am a retiree from the military without a real vocation and I feel for those who are well trained in their fields but, you have to sacrifice in order to move ahead.

Having a year long lapse in a resume is a warning signal that there is something wrong, that the person applying isn't going to take the bull by the horns so to speak. however, a guy or gal working in an oil installation with the skills you list that does his job, is agreeable, uses her initiative and has no problem working for the company will go far. And, if an when a job opening comes up that requires any of the skills you have then they will hire a loyal employee that they know well before taking a stranger out of the blue who has sent a resume such as you are now to all those you send them out to.

Having a job in any field is a far better way to find the job you want than being unemployed. Employers like firecrackers who work hard and gravitate to them. Nobody who needs a great employee puts out minimum wage and hence, shun the want ads, unemployment offices and just go door to door - the further the door is from the general population the greater the chances of finding a higher paying unadvertised job.

My statement;

"I think that if you can leave home or, can get rid of the reasons you can't then there is no reason why you couldn't have been making fifty grand plus all this time.

Unemployment is for people too scared to change."

Your idea of change is to do the same thing that didn't work for years pushing the same skills in the same environment both geographically and social wise. It has not worked for you.

On the other hand, "I think that if you can leave home or, can get rid of the reasons you can't, then there is no reason why you couldn't have been making fifty grand plus all this time.

Unemployment is for people too scared to change."

Perhaps I should have mentioned change beyond your comfort level.

WHAT A load of Rubbish. Unemployment was not my choice it was thrust upon me and now i have to live with it day in day out. Im not to scared to change just no work about in a small city with 435 poeple going for each job. And why sshould i move away from my children and have them resent me for it sorry Alberta but your out of order here mate JMHO

Why should you move? I agree. Applying for the same job as everybody else is such a bonus. And to do it time after time and not learn anything from the experiences is indicative that maybe I should make a change. Let some other guy get the job. After all, he's willing to move and, bet he thanks you for being the way you are.

I said;

"I think that if you can leave home or, can get rid of the reasons you can't then there is no reason why you couldn't have been making fifty grand plus all this time.

Unemployment is for people too scared to change."

So, your kids can thank you for staying at home unemployed rather than moving on for a few months and finding employment in another area that needs people with your skills and sending for them later That is your decision, but, to those who say there are no jobs I say they are wrong. There are jobs. Just jobs they don't want.

oF COURSE aLBERTA yOUR AN EXPERT ON bRITISH GEOGRAPHY, uNEMPLOYMENT AND MY CHILDREN JUST THINK YOUR SILLY AND FROM A GENERATION THAT WAS LUCKY WITH WORK. SEND FOR MY CHILDREN AND STOP THEM SEEING THEIR MOTHER STOPP THEM FROM GOING TO THE GREAT SCHOOLS THEY GO TO STOP THEM FROM SEEING THEIR FREINDS. YOU ARE TWONK WITH A CAPITAL A