Taxation is theft... ergo..

UK just going to be super rich eventually when robots do all the Queen's work.

i'm not sure the uk's employment laws stop this type of discrimination. I was told, in an interview, that I was too old. At least that was honest feedback but I can't sue since I have no money! Team fit often gets used, overqualified is anopther get out.

How much you guys are paid?

re: Oliver Cromwell - the impact of Cromwell’s actions in Ireland was devastating. His campaign left thousands of Irish civilians dead, and his policies led to mass dispossession of land. Many Irish were forced into exile, while others were sold into indentured servitude in the West Indies. His actions left a lasting legacy of bitterness in Ireland, and he is still remembered as a figure of hatred in Irish history.

The problem, as I see it, is we have suffered successive governments who have driven ever more inequality into our society, with the people at the top being hugely successful and those below them left behind. The rhetoric of the Tories, Reform, Ukip and the sentiments behind the Brexit referendum have been deliberately designed to take our collective eye off the ball. Our problems are not at the door of immigration. It is down to the post 70s discard of everything the post war contract with the people stood for. Scapegoating foreigners is as lazy as it is unpleasant. It is the haves at the top who are keeping us down, yet we defend their right to hoard massive amounts of wealth (therefore power), whilst getting angry at some people getting help with the most basic needs to live. On a side note. The opinions of the people who are throwing bricks at emergency working men and women, looting shops, attacking places of worship and trying to burn people alive in hotels, are not worth applying a "but" to, like you have far too many times in this video. They are simply terrorists and they are a million miles away from representing any decent person's concerns.

As a finance person I’ve done various weird and wonderful roles over the years. My favourites have been stand alone roles where my bosses are in other countries. I do think you are over thinking it, if you don’t know who your boss is then why would they get rid of you. If they get rid of you, for whose benefit is it, your work would have to be taken on by someone else. You have to think that there are plusses and minuses at being a temp, just like they are with perm roles. If you are unhappy there it’s different, then keep in contact with agencies for new roles, as you are available at short notice.

I'm 50 I enjoy my role but 60 is a hard line for me I want to explore a bit and not be tied to must be back Monday, but we all do what suits us I have friends who will prob die at their desk because that's their life and good on them.

One of my previous team leaders would notoriously throw anyone's CV he deemed "too old" in the bin. I remember calling him out on it but he simply dismissed it as a stupid decision for "old people to work". I'm still horrified by his actions till this day

Wish you the best of luck, bud.

Government used to be nice now, were understaffed under resourced and facing an increasing abusive public

I was late with a tax payment ... (HMRC's software is very flaky) and they referred my tax obligation to a private debt collector. I couldn't believe it. I went from owing the government for having the audacity to earn money, to owning a private company that employs thugs to kick down your door. What exactly do tax collectors do if they don't collect tax? The idea HMRC doesn't do its own collections and instead turns your debt over to some mates for private profit is absolutely disgusting. I have no idea how that can be legal.

Very best wishes for your job application 👍

Good luck with your application I'm few years younger than yourself. You can setup a noitiication alert where you will be notified by email of any vacancies as meet your search terms as soon as they are advertised. Use a word prcessor to copy and paste you persaonal statement that way you can use spell check, gramarcheck and the word count. Use the maximum number of words allowed . Some the pro's not mentioned the ones you mentioned in your video flexi time , and work arrangemenet uchas part time compressed as well full time. , 5 paid days of for volunteering, paid leave for & development, and access to employee assistance programme .

I used to work for a pharmaceutical firm, and life was good until I was made redundant several years ago. After three years of unemployment, I finally found a job at the local authority.

What I would say about the Public Sector in the UK is that the process is about as close as I think it's probably possible to get to removing bias in recruitment. I contract into the public sector and have on occasion applied for the odd permie role. BUT I've also regularly been asked to sit in on the interview/selection process too. Firstly the information the selection team get is anonymised. No info on name/sex/age/anything else is given to selectors. Obviously if you go for an interview you will have to show up, but there every interviewee is asked exactly the same set of questions and responses are noted. Presentations are frequently asked for and these are stored too. The candidate selection process scores applicants according to a set of criteria agreed in advance. Secondly all candidates, external and internal must go through the same process, no selecting of your protege simply because you know they are a good bloke. The point here is that if a candidate thinks they were a victim of bias they can challenge the selection. So if that happens the organisation must be able to give chapter and verse on the way the successful candidate was selected. The selection panel has to hand in their notes for storage too. They have to have a documented audit trail. Yes it's bureaucratic but it does seem to work IMO after watching multiple appointments made in the NHS over the last decade or so. If you don't get the job it won't be because you are too old. I speak as someone who just missed out on a senior (board level) role in the NHS only last week. At 65! The process is the same for all bands of jobs.

£70K a year Job bracket is IMHO a very small pond! nothing really to do with the economy that they are few and far between. Good luck with your endeavours

Put on lipstick and wear a dress to the interview. Guaranteed to get the job.

Took a (civilian) position with a Sheriff’s office a few months ago & so far so good. Surprisingly decent mix of people our age & taking full advantage of the free gym during my breaks. Work for 8 years & I’ll be vested for my 2nd government pension. Total of 5 months from application to the interview & background investigation till my first day of work. Lovely people at the Sheriff’s & the deputies treat us just marvelously. We even get a free hot meal every night during the week. I’m so grateful to be working full time again after deciding to unretire.

I suspect qualified accountants were short in supply back then. But i honestly dont think you would become the FD if you stayed. I can say im on the safe path as you described for an accountant. Very few accountants can fill a FD role which requires unique skill sets mentality. You dont have it. Neither do i. No need to regret the choice you took 20 years ago.

Were expected to work until we're 67 or 68 (currently), yet age discrimination is rife. No amount of legislation can stop it until employers become fully accountable for their hiring decisions. So long as employers can pay people based on age, they will always discriminate against us older folk. The best plan is to find out what you enjoy, what you're good at and maybe go self employed if that's viable.

I've only managed to get 12 days of work in 8 months. Its worst recession I have faced since the last one. Recuiters are pigs. Ageism is awful in the UK, big problem. They would rather hire someone with no experience to pay them less rather than experience.

As a white, middle aged man you’ll be up against it, unless you support the rainbow 🌈 flag.

I just love how people get sold on the pay differential between public and private. There is none. Average civil service salary is around 35k same as the private sector but when you throw in the pension and benefits plus adherence to contract hours the public sector wins. Avoid the private sector is my advise for average Joe Public. Have a decent work life balance, no stress, great leave, work from home and an outstanding pension when you retire. Plus stop believing what the media and unions tell you.

Is it the private health insurance premiums when you get older that the private sector companies don’t want to pay?

You want to be indoctrinated?

You remind me of the days when I was working in a warehouse like datacenter for 2 years, seldom getting to see anyone but a security guy at the gate. It was a time of great discretion and tranquility in retrospect, but one guy at the other datacenter nearly lost his mind and left after a few weeks saying “this isn’t what I signed up for”

I can recall when I was homeless and faced with many things in Life until $75,000 biweekly began rolling in and my Life went from A homeless nobody to a different person with good things to offer!!!!!!❤️❤️

Well done, very brave. Xx

Get rid of that horrible stubble for goodness sake! 😈 Four months out of work isn't that much. I was out of work for two years in the early '90s. Fortunately I was still living with my parents at the time. The main 'professional' grade in the Civil Service is grade 7 - that is equivalent to a middle manager level role. Salaries are quite a bit lower than the private sector, but instead of getting a paltry money purchase pension where the employer puts in 6-8%, in the Civil Service you get a defined benefit pension based on your career average salary, meaning that the for every year of employment you get 2.3% of salary as an 'earned' pension that will pay when you are at state retirement age. This is excellent if you join in mid-career, say aged 40, but at 55 you will not have enough time to earn a big pension unless you intend to work until state retirement age. Also, no annual bonuses are paid in the Civil Service, though you might get one if you are an exceptional performer.

your applying for 50-60 grand a year that's great most people will never even be able to apply for these type of jobs

D.E.I (“Diversity , Equity , Inclusion”) is now in full swing here in the U.K . I recently went for an interview with B & M for a job I was more than qualified for . As soon as I walked in and saw all the hijabs and dark skin of the fellow interviewees my heart sank . On leaving I was told that if I was successful I’d receive a phone call by the following Friday . Needless to say , no call came . Last week on perusing the local news website , I saw an article on the new stores opening day with an accompanying photo . If it wasn’t for two white faces , you’d think the new store was in Karachi . This is how the globalists are going to finally finish us off , by legally denying us employment . No job , no home , no family . Gen0cide by any other name .

I don't think you'll have much luck with a gov job,, your way too competent and able. I suppose if you go along with DEI as a cheerleader they might have you along in the role of "boxer" from animal farm.

All the best, good luck!

Without public sector experience, it will be very difficult to get into government bodies. But the main point is that recruitment freeze has been imposed on support services like finance. Good luck.

You said in your last video that there were five of you working and not enough work to go around. Well, if one person has handed in their notice then that gives you more work and why would you say you will help the company recruit another staff member! Your logic doesn't make any sense to me anyway!!

No, diversity doesnt include age, it's just virtue signaling, their target demographic is a certain culture, note not cultures. There are many incommers which need the bar lowered to gain entry into the work force.

Are they still handing out final salary pensions for people joining today? I know it would be great for you but the country can't afford this.

Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army treated Irish civilians better than the IRA treated the English.

Don't give up! At 59 I got a perm job in the DWP and am still working here. Lengthy application process I remember it well, go put on reserve list having gone through all the hoops etc. My first thought was that they thought I was to old however within a month got an email asking if I was interested in another role which would fit my previous exp and have never looked back. Feel very lucky to have got a job at 59. Just shows you what can happen.

I've done a number of civil service job applications, the interesting thing is, your application gets a score 1 to 8 which you can view. 4 is the minimum to get an interview I was told. When you apply, make sure you read the person specification, you'll need that to make your personal statement. This is where most of your score is made up from.

Good idea, above average pay for the role, now employ most of the population, great conditions and pensions yet the unions and press do a super job pushing the opposite narrative. I don’t think you have what they are looking for though if you catch my drift.

I have been in Gov roles for over 5 years and they are generally good and I started in Gov at 48. What I don't understand is this "We prefer Gov experience" mentality. I have no idea why, as an accountant, its like a new system, which you get in any org, then from a finance perspective its all the same as non gov so its nonsensical that they have this "Prefer Gov experience" mentality. If anything Gov has more and more pointless "Team get together s/stand ups" having to listen to each (woman) executive give us her "round up" of events in her space, complete waste of time I took none of it in. One thing about Gov is they are expert in wasting time and pointless meetings. In one role the manager asked me why I didn't apply for the ongoing role as I was fixed term, the honest truth was I was targeting a redundancy which I got, but even if not for that I didn't want the job primarily because of the "Daily 9 am stand up" meeting, can you believe this? 9 am every day, completely pointless "How are we?" meeting FFS I cant wait till all this "Office nonsense" is over, soon, very very soon. But one thing I learnt is also to keep your emotions at bay, if I had made a negative comment about these pointless meetings, well, I needed both managers in that role for my next reference and top contract rate I am on now. When I was a young first job office worker my mentor said "Never burn your bridges coz you never know when you will bloody need em again!!!" she was spot on. Good luck all, I know these are challenging times for all.

Hi, I noticed the role you applied for is permanent. Would you consider applying for the role at the place where you work now? Assuming the company want to backfill the position.

I wish you well. I am 61, so a little older than you. I decided to stay retired after a fruitless job search a few years ago. I did apply for 'public sector' roles, but rather than be impressed by the great blue companies I had worked for, they seemed to discriminate against me because I had no public sector experience! I didn't ever think of trying HMRC, and it could be a very good idea. As I say I really hope it is successful. I am a bit rusty on all this now, but I would try and find out about their ways of doing things as part of the preparation for the interview. If you succeed, I may give HMRC a go, as my pension fund has been depleted by higher than expected inflation and lower than expected returns on my investments.

are you talking career experience at 55, its just about getting a job mate and keeping your head down till you retire now

The contracting market is broken in financial services rates down by at least 25% because too many people are chasing too few jobs. It feels like a recession to me even after the GFC in 2008 this is the worst I have seen. Government is probably the way forward you never know there could be more contracting opportunities their which last more than 6 months.

Very diverse environment so hope having listened to a few of your previous comments that you are positive about working with all types of people. Very good with supporting those with disabilities too.

You should apply for Uber eats, Just eat and Deliveroo if you can drive. It’s guaranteed work