I am 57 years old and want to start a new career.It's difficult to get an interview.What do you suggest?
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Look into a truck driving training center.
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Yes it can be hard to find a job at your age expicially if you are attractive oddly enough.\nDo not dress sexy at all. That mean your shirt comes up to your neck and your dress is just below your knee.\nA 17 year old girl has a lot of sex appeal and that is all they see.\nYou live in an area that is economically depressed so there is a lot of competition for jobs.\nYou sound like you are very good at listing your good points and abilities.\nYou just CANNOT GIVE UP EVER.\nThis is hard I know but never stop trying. NEVER STOP!\nList yourself with a temporary employment agency.\nThey will put you into a temporary job that may turn into a full time one.\nIt is much easier to get a job with a temporary agency.\nI mean an agency that places temporary employees.
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For your skills, you might also want to look at computer programming, project management, marketing, and sales type jobs in your product area of expertise.\n\nIf you want to work in a retirement community, I would recommend looking of someplace like Monster.com to find out the types of jobs there are in a retirement community.  Then you can look into what you need to get a job that looks good to you.
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You are old enough to decide your career path.  Your job needs to be what you want because you may be doing it most of your life and doing something you don't enjoy will make you miserable.  Be true to yourself..it is your life and your career.
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you know, it's ok not to know what you want to do for sure. try different things. work for different companies. see what you like doing. what you see yourself doing for the rest of your life. it should be something you're good at, enjoy doing, and won't get bored with in a few years. it's good to have a general education or a degree in business or education. you can do a lot with that. and remember, you're never too old to go back to school. and you can always change jobs and proffessions every couple of years, if you get bored easily. how about starting your own business? there's a lot of room for thought here. good luck.
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Ohell yeah! I am 42 and have plenty of experience in my specific career but the competion have degrees, and employers nowadays require a degree to even consider for the job. I have a family and a fulltime and partime job and it is very difficult to finda ANY spare time. I am squeeking by some hours of credit courses for eventually I do want a better degree for a better paying job, or at least enough to make a decent living with the current economy the way it is. Coleege is very needed for some careers are very skilled intensive and good training does not come easy.
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If you aren’t happy with what you are doing, change because eventually you will become bitter with thoughts of lost opportunity.  Let your interests be your guide.  Don’t let the “can’t do” get in the way.  Think about why you like your interests and what about them would make others pay money for some element of them.  Then how could you supply such to them.\n\nBy the way, forget about age, 35 is so young.  I’m 65 and working on four different ideas for what will be my third business.  Remember, the worse that can happen is that you fail.  If so, just take a night off, celebrate, and the next morning begin a new idea.
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Congratulations on your educational achievements!!\nKeep it up!!!\n\nI have had many careers, including nontraditional work.\nWas a secretary with federal government, then a \nlegal assistant/secretary, massage therapist, and now\nexecutive administrative assistant with a major corporation.\nI turn 50 in December.\n\nYour natural talents and passion for your line of work will\nhelp guarantee your success.  Practice deep breathing\nand relaxation techniques which you can use during\nthe daytime when in situations of stress as well as\nin evening when you unwind.  Perform stretching \nexercises frequently throughout the day.  Avoid caffeine\nand other nerve-stimulators.  Practice self-affirmations\nand visualization exercises.  Read motivational books\nabout career success to inspire and encourage you.\n\nNervousness is natural.  Even at my latest job, I was \nextremely nervous the first few weeks, despite my\nhaving years of experience.  Some people are just\nmore naturally nervous than others (more sensitive,\nmore self-conscious).  \n\nAvoid negative thoughts and counter them with positive\nself-talk and thoughts.  If you catch yourself thinking to\nyourself "oh, I'm so nervous" then counter with a thought\nthat says "STOP!  You have every reason to be calm\nand confident."\n\nWanting to move out to experience self autonomy is\na sign of maturity.  Your parents should encourage it,\nif you can afford it.\n\nBest wishes!
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I am 51 years old and I decided to go back to school and get a business degree in Entrepreneurship because I am older and feel that opportunities for us are limited.\n\nBut you can still work at hotels, and work up in higher positions.  I currently work at a hotel and plan on applying for jobs within the hotel after I get my degree, and the big plus is that they are paying for my education.\n\nValet jobs, drivers...school bus or city bus, parking meter readers, any city position.\n\nCasino's as dealers\nWaiters in banquets\n\nDon't give up...it is attitude more than anything.  Use your network of people that you know...they are a very good source of information.\n\nWhat type of work were you doing before?
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man that's tough... I know many people face that daily. Unfortunately so many people especially in the 25-55 age group are unskilled. Many younger people have skills that are in keeping with progress .. computers Internet etc.. there are jobs out there but the unskilled labor/factory/farm jobs are on the decrease and have been for a while now.. I am not sure there is any real answer for that. Social services is inadequate to maintain any kind of life style.. I think if yo have recently found yourself out of work and have no way to put food on the table... you are liable to be a dangerous person, because desperation will make you do some scary sh!t
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take the test (it's not that hard).  And start looking at different companies you could work for.  Look on career finding websites.  Start interviewing with the different companies and get a feel for what they're like.  Pros you make a lot of money, and have more freedom in what you do.  Cons you have to work really hard in the beginning, and deal with a lot of rejection, and you have irregular income.
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whut? \n\nhow old are you and what do you like to do.  It'd be good to find a career doing something you enjoy doing.  Figure out your priorities-- making more money or having more time, for example.
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I'm just guessing here, but if you are over 50 and haven't yet discovered your dream career, it is probably retirement.\n\nGod knows, that's my career dream.  18 years and counting!!!
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A lot of us are often told that to get a promotion, we have to change employers. But that may be stale advice. The opportunity to advance in your company may be closer than you think.\n\nAccording to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the percentage of all workers with full-time jobs who are age 55 and older will grow to more than 20 percent in 14 years. Due to the sheer magnitude of this change, increasing numbers of workers will be leaving their current jobs to retire or accommodate a planned change in lifestyle.\n\nThat trend, combined with the potential for increased hiring as the economy improves, bodes well for younger, advancement-minded workers.\n\nClearly this will not happen overnight. Aging baby boomers may retire later. According to AARP, 69 percent of employees older than 45 plan to continue working past 65.\n\nBut rather than hanging on to their current jobs until they drop, real-life trends indicate that late-stage workers either are staying in their jobs longer or seeking "bridge jobs" — part-time, short-term or self-employed jobs — before they finally exit the workforce. One of the explanations for this is that older workers will seek jobs in locations and on terms that are more in line with the lifestyle they will want as they plan on how they want to life the later years of their lives.\n\nYounger workers with talent and ambition will want to keep these trends in mind and think about how to improve their promotion probability.\n\nIf you like the company you work for and the people you work with — and you’d like to move up, not out — there are some things you can do to increase your possibility for promotion while you stay put.\n\nThis advice is particularly important at this time of year because your accomplishments during the whole year are considered when you are up for an end-of-year evaluation, consideration for a bonus or a promotion.\n\nCareer advice-givers commonly preach that to get promoted, you’ll either have to leave the company for a better job; your current company must create a new position for you; or your boss must get promoted, retire or leave. They all give the same fundamental advice: To increase your promotion probability, you must learn your boss’ job and train your replacement.\n\nI’ll add my two cents: Grow your boss' business by coming up with new ways to grow revenue. A growing business can pay for expansion — and your promotion. Nothing gets more positive recognition than adding to the bottom line.
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Your never to old to make changes to your life and 50 is not old!  I suggest looking into going self employed as a trainer. I work for a training company and we are always looking for trainers (and pay them a very generous wage). You can work the hours you want to and still get satisfaction from helping others achieve their goals. Good luck in whatever you decide. Make the break it will be worth it in the end and if it doesn't work out you can always go back to teaching.Just remember,If you always do what you've always done you'll always get what you've always got.
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Slow down and remember that life is what happens and rushes by you when you are busy making other plans.  You are only 18.  Enjoy this time of your life.   Don't be in such a rush.  For young people entering the world of work today, you can expect to have at least two or three different careers in your lifetime and that is a good thing.  You aren't expected to know at eighteen what you want to do with your life.  Our daughters who are in their late 20's and early 30's are already into second and third careers, and having great lives.\n\nI am 53 years old and a grandma and retired and I still don't know what I want to do with my life or what I want to be when I grow up.  And that's ok.\n\nBest of luck.
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You're never too old to retrain. Go out and find something you enjoy doing. If your job is getting you down then quit.