I stayed with my previous employer throughtout all the lockdowns, including going on site when my entire city was empty and carrying out duties of multiple colleagues.

Yet the past few months, has probably been the worst in my working career – even worse than the first lockdown – and its all really down to management just S****ing on us! There is no other way to describe it and everyone just knows what I mean, its not bullying or harrassment – if you are going through it: you just know it…

Thankfullly, I have made it out of my job of many, many years to a role in a different industry and I could not be happier! If you are reading this and feel the same – just take the leap search for something new to do, literally anything and you will feel better!

This might be a little too late, but I hope that your anxiety and other fears have become more manageable over time. Thank you for your service during these tough times, even if you did already resign, any bit really did count. Hope you’ve been doing well, much love 🙂

Just wait untill you get to 3 years short of retirement age and are made redundant.

I have 48 years experience as a mechanical / electrical /electronics engineer in many differing fields, each requiring that I learn how the equipment works. I managed to get these jobswith only a single city & guilds qualification because my CV shows the wealth of experience I have gained. This experience has allowed me to work for fortune 500 companies maintaining their fleet of flagship machines for major customers but at age 63 I have next to zero chance of landing a job that pays more than the living wage.

I applied for a position that was in a different sector than my previous jobs. I got a call from the recruiter who was saying all the right things right up until it got to my age. I answered honestly and added that for the right job I would be open to working betond retirement age (66 for me), only to be met with – ‘Oh, I’m sorry. My client is looking for someone with 10 to 15 years’.

Yes, I can appreciate that an employer may well be looking for a longer term commitment from prospective employees BUT until they can reciprocate that commitment and guarantee the same length of time as long as the successful candidate performs well and doesn’t do anything to warrant dismissal, they shouldn’t use this as a reason to dismiss any application.

There are supposed to be laws preventing age discrimination in the UK but this doesn’t seem to affect the poor prospects of landing the kind of job we are still capable of doing and doing them well.

Unfortunately, I am not financially able to simply relax & enjoy the 2 years & 8 months to retirement and need to carry on working but should I be able to procure another job, I may have to accept a much lower income and the changes to my lifestyle that will be inevitable.

true.Most of them are not giving feedback why I not selected to the post

This is 100% true. Most people forget this fact. Instead of working for one boss, or instead of having one employer, you’re working for countless individuals. Each one of them has their own motivation and their own reason to pay you or not to pay you. Like a salesperson, self employed individuals need to be able to brand themselves, and convince clients that they are worth the money.