Over 50 and Out of Work?
Well, at this stage the prospects aren't great!
You need all the help you can get,
and the best source are the people who share your predicament, and even better the people who have shared it and found a satisfactory outcome.
Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927)
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
There are five issues with which our self-help community can help.
- Getting your head straight.
- Unemployment is a hammer blow on the self esteem,
- Preparing for Tomorrow's World of Work.
- The jobs we left may never return - at least in the form we knew.
- Organising your Job Search
- To show against 'the common herd' it will have to be good.
- Considering Self Employment as an option
- It may be the best way out.
- Keeping your Spirits up
- It's all too easy to become morose and uncommunicative when under stress
Getting our heads straight.- Dismissal, redundancy or retirement - is a psychological blow. We must address this before we can tackle the jobs market.
- The support of others is the key to self-help
Tomorrow's World of Work- The jobs we left may never return in the form we knew.
- New skills will be required.
Our Job Search- Finding a job is a job! There are thousands of people out there looking for work.
- We must plan to be effective.
Self Employment- Maybe this is your chance to branch out on your own.
- You might consider internet trading.
Our Keeping Up Our Spirits- Our Social Networking Site Retired and Active keeps you in touch with the world outside
..and if that doesn't work you may have to consider self-employment or trading on the internet.
...and that's where Life's 3rd Phase comes in
L3P is a self help (technically a 'Wiki') site devoted to helping the over 50s back to work.
Can you help us to help others?
...well yes you can
You don't need any IT skills but
- If you've been through the mill
- ..and have the benefit of your experience to offer
- or if you've worked in human resources
- ...and can offer professional advice
..then we'd value your input and
Contributing your own material couldn't be easier.
- You can comment on any of our pages
- here and now simply by scrolling down to the bottom of the page to the Post New Comment form and simply typing in your Subject and the Comment itself
Or once you've become a member and logged in
- A process that costs you nothing and keeps your identity safe
- You can start your own blog
- or offer your existing blogging material to a whole new readership
- Take part in our forums
- Adding your own comments, ideas and knowledge to those of others
- You can discuss the world of work
- with your friends in our chat rooms
And if you do have some basic IT skills
You can help even more people by joining the Life's 3rd Phase team and adding pages of information of your own or even running your own section.
Be a member and have your say |
The next 2-3 years are not going to be easy and we need to stick together.
Membership of Life's 3rd Phase' is free and confidential. We never ask for your contact details or your bank or credit card information. We don't sell or use your membership for commercial purposes |
There's no escaping the fact that if you're over 50, finding employment will be difficult, your job searches will have to be organised and effective, and that you may have to consider working from home, a business start-up or even trading on eBay

