Posted on 12/06/2017 10:23:53 AM PST by thescourged1
I need some advice. I'm unable to continue on in my current occupation in warehousing and storage. I've been doing it for many years, but now my knees are so shot that I can't even do light labor comfortably or stand for very long. I have a friend who is a vocational rehab counselor that can get me set up with a ticket to ride on an education to get into a field that is more compatible with my physical problems.
What makes it all the more thought-provoking, is that I just turned 50. That's not old, but old enough that it makes me ask myself how much time do I really want to spend in school, knowing that I will hit retirement age in as little as 17 years.
Putting the age weirdness aside, my real question is what are the real employment trends right now and what is safer from being encroached upon by foreigners and automation? I know some of you Freepers are business owners, recruiters, HR specialists and educators. Your on-the-ground experience is much more valuable to me than articles written and statistics compiled by those with an agenda.
Retirement age is 67 as you call it? What do you like to do and what are your interest?
You need a lot more help than a few lines and responses on a website. Find some local
people, church, educational, trades, medical, etc and start a process of laying out a
groundwork for your situation. FR isn’t that place other than a few helpful hints, maybe.
Good luck.
If you did warehousing and have some computer skills you may be good at database administration. There are plenty of other crossovers - I'm focusing on IT because that's what I know. Key to the whole thing is be patient with rejection and don't let it wear you down. You're a unique human being whose life and skills have value, and being out of work doesn't change that. Best of luck!
Good luck.
Maybe see if FedEx or UPS has a desk-type job for which your experience might help with shipping logistics?
Good luck to you!
I keep seeing news stories sbout Google hiring 10,000 workers in their video/Youtube section. I have no clue where you would start getting info, but may be worth an effort to look into it.
That’s hard to deal with for sure.
I work for a railroad, and most of the people who have more than 20 years in have had at least a hip, knee, or shoulder joint replaced, due to the nature of the work.
You definitely need a desk job, or a job that doesn’t require heavy lifting.
As a workers comp case manager, may I ask if your current limitations are due to a work related injury? And if so, is your employer’s workers comp insurance going to cough up the money for this education and/or training for your change of vocation?-and if not, who will be providing the funds? Also have you had a vocational evaluation? It has been my observation that people are most successful choosing occupations in which they can put their transferable skills to use.
Please do not get a lawyer and become another SSDI phony mooch-it will limit your ability to make any extra money, drain taxpayer funds, thereby pissing people like me off-and worst of all you will be enriching and encouraging another dishonest, ambulance chaser...
I’m an independent construction contractor now, but I keep my credentials so I can do case management now and then for extra $$$-I will never retire-working keeps one healthy and fit-but that’s just my dos centavos...
If I had to start a new career it would be in a GIS(Geographic Information Systems) related field. I love maps.
Thank you.
Depends on where you live. Get your knees fixed. Had mine done and 6 months I’m good to go. Hip too. Much easier rehab.
If you know warehousing, they have many sit down jobs at Amazon and Jet.com. Find a location you can reach. Prologis (sp) has distribution operations all over too. Check them out.
Get a CDL and you can pick your job with warehousing connections.
No, thank you.
My husband lost his job several years ago (we’re doing fine now!) and most freepers were incredibly kind to me. I don’t forgot those wonderful people but am shocked when people are needlessly cruel.
Please, please don’t encourage people to enrich ambulance chasers and deplete social security funds by sticking their snouts in the SSDI trough-those funds are/were intended for the truly unemployable, such as those with catastrophic injuries-quadraplegia, major brain trauma, etc-bad knees are not even close-they are repairable...
Have you considered knee replacement surgery? That’s what it’s for.
These injections are getting more popular rather than have knee replacement, rotater cuff repair, tendon repair ect.
And I thank both of you for speaking out-the last thing the SS system needs is more fake disability moochers-makes my job more frustrating as well...
I have no advice. But, good luck.
“Moniker should be “Responsibility Irrelevant”.....
What do you really know about the man you impugned?”
Having read R2nd’s posts for years, I do not think that he was impugning the poster. I think that he was impugning the corrupt welfare system.
That was rude, inane, counterproductive, and pointless.
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