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How about college? Passing his skills onto the next generation?
Job ideas for 60 year old builder out of work
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Wrong kind of attitude.
There was a lady working in the retailler I work at who worked in the checkout department, packed bags, did allsorts.
She was over 80 years old and to be entirely honest she could put a lot of the 60 year olds coming through to shame. Pretty active, cheerful and up for a chat with customers as she helped.
Retired earlier this year, think her memory was going a bit.
Few other chaps who work in the place over 60 years old, hot food section (doesn't like the cold), shelf work...
It's work, keeps you busy, earns some money.
Get real, its fine for a 18-23 year old, but anyone above that needs to really question what they did wrong in their lives.
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I really dont understand whats wrong with a 50/60+ aged person working in B&Q or on the tills at the Mighty T?
Like the OP's father who has worked hard all his life and is now (hoping to) take it easy with a nice little job for beer money now the mortgage is paid off.
lol, he has done nothing drastically wrong with his life. He's slowed down his work over the last 10 years as he got older and having paid off his mortgage in his 20s he's never needed to worry about work since, just enough to pay a few bills here and there and for holidays and luxuries, now though, that work just doesn't seem to be coming in.
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Might be worth speaking to a large construction company about a consultancy position - if you are right about his experience, then he could go into specification level detail about most major jobs.
FWIW my old man has retired after forty years as a coded welder. Big redundancy payoff from his day job [maintenance tech, well below him as it stands but steady, easy, decent money] and, but he still has plenty of work as a sole trader for his mate who runs massive ventilation system installations as a consultant engineer - £40/hr, two or three days work = £700 after tax a couple of times a month.
Should cover him fine till he can't be arsed any more!
I'd get a list of the major engineering/construction businesses locally, including the local govt, and not so locally, and make some enquiries.
FWIW my old man has retired after forty years as a coded welder. Big redundancy payoff from his day job [maintenance tech, well below him as it stands but steady, easy, decent money] and, but he still has plenty of work as a sole trader for his mate who runs massive ventilation system installations as a consultant engineer - £40/hr, two or three days work = £700 after tax a couple of times a month.
Should cover him fine till he can't be arsed any more!
I'd get a list of the major engineering/construction businesses locally, including the local govt, and not so locally, and make some enquiries.
I'd be looking at some kind of site foreman position.
Tesco's are opening their kitchen sales department at the moment and will probably need experienced fitters as area managers to keep an eye on the guys doing the work.
I really want my dad to go for a position like this as I think the physical work is starting to be a bit too much for him.
Tesco's are opening their kitchen sales department at the moment and will probably need experienced fitters as area managers to keep an eye on the guys doing the work.
I really want my dad to go for a position like this as I think the physical work is starting to be a bit too much for him.
Don't get me wrong I think it's great for a 60 year to be aggresively seeking work. But, B&Q, I think I'd rather retire
Why? when I go to B&Q i see load of older people working there and they seems to really enjoy their work and helping customers.
Colleges nowadays often require formal teaching qualifications. It's pretty silly in practice because it doesn't genuinely represent who can and can't do the job, but it boils down to being able to tick boxes on government (i.e. funding) forms.
It's worth him asking though, because it pays pretty well, would be less physically demanding than building and his extensive experience should be considered by the college. Assuming he likes teaching and can do it - has he trained apprentices in the past?
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I really dont understand whats wrong with a 50/60+ aged person working in B&Q or on the tills at the Mighty T?
Like the OP's father who has worked hard all his life and is now (hoping to) take it easy with a nice little job for beer money now the mortgage is paid off.
I agree. I know a few people in that situation, some of whom don't need to work for money at all any more as their income from saving earlier in life is sufficient. When your mortgage was for £1000 and was paid off 30 years ago, you can have saved quite a bit of money from even an average wage.
sure you pretty much can in colleges and training centres that offer NVQs and BTEC when working with over 16/18s my uncle did it with no qualificaions whatsoever. just 30years experience in the trade. a lot of it is just doing practical demonstrations and he got some sort of basic teaching qual while he was there just by having someone sit in on classes every now and again. might just be this area though, theres always ads in the paper from the colleges looking for similar. must be a shortage
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It depends on the college. Some have a hard policy of requiring formal teaching qualifications, some might accept having a small percentage of their teaching staff without them. At least, that was the case when I was teaching at a college.
Those that require them will ignore everything else. I'd been teaching for 5 years and had had 6 inspections. 5 routine internal and one OFSTED as a result of being one of the "lucky" lecturers who the OFSTED inspector selected at random during their inspection. There were letters of praise from students in my personel record, not all of whom I paid
The college knew I could do the job, but when the policy changed I had the choice of getting a PGCE or leaving.I still think it's worth the OP's father looking into this if teaching appeals to him, but I think the rules have become even tighter since I left 5 years ago.