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Are there even companies that are looking actively for 65+ yo people? What kind of job are that and how many are there? I swear, we gonna lift the age up and up every decade before we gonna ask the rich to pay their fair share.
I'd like to give you an extra upvote for your username :-)
Don't know about 65+ but I'm 67 in a few weeks and only started my current job two and a half years ago. I think if you don't look or act like a doddery old git, and you have the qualities and outlook required, you're in with a chance. My role for instance is far better suited to a more 'mature' person. They've tried recruiting younger people but most of the ones they took on were not reliable or not up to the job! Some places like B&Q look to older people as they have a wealth of knowledge, Tesco etc. as older people can turn up at 0600 as opposed to others that turn the alarm off and go back to sleep because they've been on the piss until 0400. Obviously there will be exceptions to the rule, but just look at the number of older people staffing the supermarkets. Where I work and across our network of centres there are very few under 50.
It's pants. My daughter (22) will probably have to wait until past 71 at this rate. Some will never be able to stop working.
Shopping baggers is a popular 'career' for elderly people. :/
It's cheaper to put in more self-serve checkouts.
Maybe Walmart greeters? I don't think they expect people to actually get jobs at 70 years old. I think they expect them to have to cash out early, and then the government will steal a sizable chunk of the money they're owed.
We don't have Walmart and our shops don't have greeters, so that's one line of employment we're short of.
You guys are lucky!
We do have ASDA though and it's basically the same.
Asda was owned by Walmart for a bit, but it isn't anymore. Got sold to the guys who own the Euro Garages petrol station chain. And although it was owned by them, it was never really run like a US Walmart. No greeters, for a start.