redundancy @ 63 = what to do now

AJS33

Hi All

My dad is potentially going to get made redundant today, and as he is a complete worrier, i thought i would ask for any suggestions.

He originally trained as a bricklayer and in the past few years he as been foreman or site finisher as obviously because of his age he finds it really hard going bricklaying for 10 hours a day. He would ideally like to work full-time until retirement and he loves gardening as a hobby, we live in the hampshire area.

Any suggestions???

john.xs

retire now and enjoy his hobby while he can. he'll be a long time pushing up the daisies!!!!!!!!!

lbell_3

He could look into setting up his own business doing gardening/handyman work? I don't know how easy that would be but at least it would give him more control over how much work he does. He could advertise by putting leaflets through the door of big houses/those with big gardens in the area, and see what interest he gets.

My sympathy to him over the redundancy; he is certainly not alone at the moment unfortunately - there are so many people at his age being made redundant after working at the same place for over years and it must be so difficult to know what to do next, especially if in an industry that is making cutbacks across the board.

Confusedconsumer_2

Becoming self employed is a good idea. B&Q employ mature people, or how about looking for work in a garden centre.

MandyLou66

I don't know much about it but our local college often advertises for NVQ assesors to check on off site students. With Dads experience he may be able to train somehow to do something like this, at least he wouldn't be doing anything too physical but using his knowledge. Like I said I don't know how it works but he could probably research it someware, sorry to be so vague.

Gook Luck to him ML