Thread: "Mature" People & New Career for New Year

Hello All,

I look like starting a new career from scratch in 2017 - well fingers crossed. I turned 54 in the first week of December this year.

I hope to emulate Western Australian Scientist David Goodall, who is still working at the age of 102.

I figure if I keep working that long I might be able to pay off my HECS debt Who knows, I might even be able to make long service leave which is something that I have never achieved before.

There was a Western Australian bloke who finished a plumbing apprenticeship when he was 60 years of age - this was a couple of years ago now.

How old have other people been on the forum when they have kick started a new career? As in a new direction not just a new job in the same vocational areas that you have previously worked in.


Kind Regards
Lionel

Good on you Lionel,

Never too old to make a change.

I was a bit younger, just short of 40 when I ditched a retail management career and moved into IT, starting at the bottom in a tech support role with HP.

At the time I had two kids pre-primary school, a mortgage and was the only bread

Looking back 16 years later and it was the best thing I could possibly have done. One think I have learned is that none of those skills from my previous career where wasted.... they just give me abilities and experience my colleagues in my new role don't have - and that can be an advantage..

Good luck with it..... I'm yet to meet an Land Rover bloke that doesn't enjoy a new adventure