Job offers keep rolling in - and one caught my eye W

HEN I semi-retired from sitting at a desk at the Examiner office to sit at a desk at home, I was urged by friends to register with LinkedIn.

It’s a sort of internet forum like Facebook, but for networking, through which people can stay in touch, self promote and look for career opportunities.

My interest waned rather quickly but, from time to time, I get lists of job opportunities. Which is nice of them to think I might wish to embark on an alternative career at my age.

The latest tells me there are 826 jobs, careers and employment opportunities available in Huddersfield.

Unfortunately, most miss my inclinations, ambitions and abilities by a mile.

It includes the usual suspects: Head of sales, data analyst, warehouse supervisor, care assistant, marketing executive and warehouse order picker.

A “superstar” email marketer is needed, plus a registered nurse, a fabricator (and no, it does not entail telling fibs), history teacher (I could specialise on the Swinging 60s), door to door salesman and consultant in anaesthetics (I have always found darts on TV sends me to sleep).

A front end developer sounded intriguing, and I was disappointed to discover Lead Theatre Practitioner did not entail going to the pictures every night but involved the serious business of health care.

One job that did take my fancy (or would have done half a lifetime ago) was producer for an awardwinning maker of marketing and corporate films.

“We are based in Huddersfield which we think is the centre of the universe, plus there’s plenty of parking, an office dog, free fruit and a wall full of vintage cameras.”

Now that’s the sort of pitch that grabs anybody’s attention. Shame I’m too old.