I feel for you sir. Am fortunate that after 20 years self employed as a freelance British Sign Language Interpreter, after losing my Deaf clients to post Covid Lockdown redundancy, I became employed as the first in house interpreter for a global language service provider. Aged 55. If I did not have a sought after skill backed by qualifications and accreditation I have no doubt I would have struggled in my previous profession as a Business Development Manager in IT Publishing. Mind you, one of our sales guys is in his 70s so an enlightened company maybe? Usual Blackrock and Vanguard shareholding though. Boooooo
Yes I hear you quite well. If I were in the UK in a given city I would be doomed. San Francisco though costly is cheaper for longer term residents in older buildings IF they can hang on with a pittance. I did survive on a pittance. I had agility and the cunning of Brave Ulysses and now ....and now the future is a fog bank that does only burn off when the second luminary is dimly seen beneath the primary one for an hour only to vanish in the rising sun. I took off my sunglasses because the future was not bright in the fog and this sun too seems quite dim so I kept them off.
I remain optimistic. The gap twixt insolvency and I is not great and resolvable with say $400 extra income for a few months more. Next year all bets are off in regards to so many things we can only plan short term.
I feel for you sir. Am fortunate that after 20 years self employed as a freelance British Sign Language Interpreter, after losing my Deaf clients to post Covid Lockdown redundancy, I became employed as the first in house interpreter for a global language service provider. Aged 55. If I did not have a sought after skill backed by qualifications and accreditation I have no doubt I would have struggled in my previous profession as a Business Development Manager in IT Publishing. Mind you, one of our sales guys is in his 70s so an enlightened company maybe? Usual Blackrock and Vanguard shareholding though. Boooooo
Yes I hear you quite well. If I were in the UK in a given city I would be doomed. San Francisco though costly is cheaper for longer term residents in older buildings IF they can hang on with a pittance. I did survive on a pittance. I had agility and the cunning of Brave Ulysses and now ....and now the future is a fog bank that does only burn off when the second luminary is dimly seen beneath the primary one for an hour only to vanish in the rising sun. I took off my sunglasses because the future was not bright in the fog and this sun too seems quite dim so I kept them off.
Good luck in your quest. Karma or providence will provide
I remain optimistic. The gap twixt insolvency and I is not great and resolvable with say $400 extra income for a few months more. Next year all bets are off in regards to so many things we can only plan short term.