OMG! I’m nearly 76! Life’s running out 😢. I started working when I was 15 and was one of the last women to get the State Pension at 60. It’s scary now because I don’t know how much longer I’ve got. I’m slowly losing mobility but still able to walk my two dogs. Joan Collins is 91 so there’s a bit of hope
Keep moving, Chris! The minute we sit down all day we give up. I had coffee with my 80 year old mum yesterday. She said the same about not knowing how long she’s got, and lamented that she can’t work as long as she used to be able to in her garden. But, my goodness, she’s still out there every day. She’s fitter and stronger than me! You might enjoy this video from a channel called “reflections of life”: th-cam.com/video/r-rHc8tm5_c/w-d-xo.htmlsi=zVkO1biDOmx4bCyD It’s one of my favourites! X
I was made redundant in my mid-fifties because of a re-organisation which is really just HR-speak for - 'lets get rid of all those expensive people' but they would deny that. However, you would think all the younger people would be cartwheeling down the office....but they weren't. All they could see (their words not mine) was all that experience and knowledge walking out the door. Who would support and advise them once we'd gone? Then the after effects were people slightly younger me boosting their pensions with a view to taking early retirement because they could see the writing on the wall. This would have been fine if senior management had trained enough people earlier to take our place but guess what, they hadn't.
That sounds like bean counters are running the show. Let's save money in the short term. Long term - what's that? Good that the younger people recognised it but my goodness, what a crying shame! What are you doing now?
I love your channel which is so informative. Yes I'm an elder having to work with managers in their 30s. Tomorrow I'm going to get my rota rearranged as working 5 days in a row is too tiring for me. However I am now on Instagram which energises me, where I have a voice and i share my creative interests which I find therapeutic 😊
Wonderful! What are your creative interests, if you don't mind me asking? This is a time when we so often get a surge of creativity! I hope your company are sympathetic to rearranging your rota. It's a matter of managing our energy, isn't it?
Honestly, my mom and her friends were super active and in their 50s and 60s were and 70s still doing things. My mom was super classy and always seemed up with the times and really smart. But sadly died of a horrible dementia called Lewy Bodies. However, until that horrific disease happened to her she was full of energy and looked fabulous and fashionable too. Nobody knows how long we have. My mom died at 77 way too young. She ate well, exercised and was the smartest person I knew. Her mom, my grandma lived healthy and died at 102 so I thought my mom had a long way to go too. My mom gave me a huge wakeup about we just do not know and to live everyday the best way we can. Sadly, they really do not know why people get dementia and there are so many different types. Sorry, for the downer comment, but it is reality. But how I see it is that my mom had a great life and she lived from 1939-2017 the hyphen in this is where her life was and she only suffered the last two years (honestly she was so bad that we were suffering more seeing her fade away in her brain.)
That's a horrible way to lose your mum, I'm so sorry. My mum is 80 next month. I saw her yesterday and mentioned the first part of this video and she recognised what I was saying, but time, place and place is a factor - I am talking about 1970s suburban England.
@@JoBlackwell-MidlifeAndBeyond Yeah, my mom was kind of a women's lib mom going back to work and finishing her college degree in the 1970s. But she would had been 85 now. She was also always fashionable and she was beautiful. Your mom would had been a baby boomer, mine was the silent generation. I was lucky to have a mom that was so progressive considering she was from the 1950s housewife generation. But she had the glamour of the 1950s with being able to keep up with the times too.
@@mollieanne she sounds fabulous! A real trailblazer. I looked for women like her as a teenager in the seventies. I was the first in my family to leave home and go to college and didn't have the confidence to blaze my trail as I wanted to. Ended up married at 20 and a mum by 22. Thank you for sharing about her. xx
@@JoBlackwell-MidlifeAndBeyond Interesting though since my mom did what you did. She married at 20 and a mom at 21 to my sister. I am the baby and was born 8 years after. She worked with my dad as his book keeper at a lab they had just to themselves, which was pretty cool. But she went back to school when I was 9 to get a four year degree. So in a sense she was living like the traditional housewife and then in the 70s was more liberal, but with keeping some traditional ways about her too. Her style in the 70s was very the trend, but classy if that makes sense. And she let her hair grow natural with growing it out silver/gray. It was gorgeous. My mom was confident and did not care about what others thought of her hair not being colored which was a big deal back then. Even now women struggle with it.
OMG! I’m nearly 76! Life’s running out 😢. I started working when I was 15 and was one of the last women to get the State Pension at 60. It’s scary now because I don’t know how much longer I’ve got. I’m slowly losing mobility but still able to walk my two dogs. Joan Collins is 91 so there’s a bit of hope
Keep moving, Chris! The minute we sit down all day we give up. I had coffee with my 80 year old mum yesterday. She said the same about not knowing how long she’s got, and lamented that she can’t work as long as she used to be able to in her garden. But, my goodness, she’s still out there every day. She’s fitter and stronger than me!
You might enjoy this video from a channel called “reflections of life”: th-cam.com/video/r-rHc8tm5_c/w-d-xo.htmlsi=zVkO1biDOmx4bCyD
It’s one of my favourites! X
I was made redundant in my mid-fifties because of a re-organisation which is really just HR-speak for - 'lets get rid of all those expensive people' but they would deny that. However, you would think all the younger people would be cartwheeling down the office....but they weren't. All they could see (their words not mine) was all that experience and knowledge walking out the door. Who would support and advise them once we'd gone? Then the after effects were people slightly younger me boosting their pensions with a view to taking early retirement because they could see the writing on the wall. This would have been fine if senior management had trained enough people earlier to take our place but guess what, they hadn't.
That sounds like bean counters are running the show. Let's save money in the short term. Long term - what's that? Good that the younger people recognised it but my goodness, what a crying shame! What are you doing now?
I love your channel which is so informative. Yes I'm an elder having to work with managers in their 30s. Tomorrow I'm going to get my rota rearranged as working 5 days in a row is too tiring for me. However I am now on Instagram which energises me, where I have a voice and i share my creative interests which I find therapeutic 😊
Wonderful! What are your creative interests, if you don't mind me asking? This is a time when we so often get a surge of creativity! I hope your company are sympathetic to rearranging your rota. It's a matter of managing our energy, isn't it?
I love this thought process about aging 🤗
It’s great, isn’t it? Changed my perspective for sure x
Honestly, my mom and her friends were super active and in their 50s and 60s were and 70s still doing things. My mom was super classy and always seemed up with the times and really smart. But sadly died of a horrible dementia called Lewy Bodies. However, until that horrific disease happened to her she was full of energy and looked fabulous and fashionable too. Nobody knows how long we have. My mom died at 77 way too young. She ate well, exercised and was the smartest person I knew. Her mom, my grandma lived healthy and died at 102 so I thought my mom had a long way to go too. My mom gave me a huge wakeup about we just do not know and to live everyday the best way we can. Sadly, they really do not know why people get dementia and there are so many different types. Sorry, for the downer comment, but it is reality. But how I see it is that my mom had a great life and she lived from 1939-2017 the hyphen in this is where her life was and she only suffered the last two years (honestly she was so bad that we were suffering more seeing her fade away in her brain.)
That's a horrible way to lose your mum, I'm so sorry.
My mum is 80 next month. I saw her yesterday and mentioned the first part of this video and she recognised what I was saying, but time, place and place is a factor - I am talking about 1970s suburban England.
@@JoBlackwell-MidlifeAndBeyond Yeah, my mom was kind of a women's lib mom going back to work and finishing her college degree in the 1970s. But she would had been 85 now. She was also always fashionable and she was beautiful. Your mom would had been a baby boomer, mine was the silent generation. I was lucky to have a mom that was so progressive considering she was from the 1950s housewife generation. But she had the glamour of the 1950s with being able to keep up with the times too.
@@mollieanne she sounds fabulous! A real trailblazer. I looked for women like her as a teenager in the seventies. I was the first in my family to leave home and go to college and didn't have the confidence to blaze my trail as I wanted to. Ended up married at 20 and a mum by 22. Thank you for sharing about her. xx
@@JoBlackwell-MidlifeAndBeyond Interesting though since my mom did what you did. She married at 20 and a mom at 21 to my sister. I am the baby and was born 8 years after. She worked with my dad as his book keeper at a lab they had just to themselves, which was pretty cool. But she went back to school when I was 9 to get a four year degree. So in a sense she was living like the traditional housewife and then in the 70s was more liberal, but with keeping some traditional ways about her too. Her style in the 70s was very the trend, but classy if that makes sense. And she let her hair grow natural with growing it out silver/gray. It was gorgeous. My mom was confident and did not care about what others thought of her hair not being colored which was a big deal back then. Even now women struggle with it.
Finally someone who is putting on interesting, informative vlogs. Thankyou! This is right up my street.
Thank you - that’s kind of you to say. I’m glad what I’m trying to do resonates!
Good content! And you look lovely in my favorite color. I enjoy your personality.
Thank you so much 🙂 I was a bit nervous about whether people would be interested in this more serious content.
@@JoBlackwell-MidlifeAndBeyond good job! Confidence, my friend!
What will you do with the extra 30 years?
Not sure though if I will have 30 years. So just taking it one day at a time and enjoying the journey