The Scottish Mail on Sunday

I’m willing to work at 68, but I’m frozen out

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Regarding last week’s Letter of the Week – ‘Over-65s could fill UK job vacancies’: I am 68 and until August worked as a clinical administra­tor. Since then I have applied for dozens of jobs and signed up to even more online agencies, but am still unemployed.

It is dishearten­ing when after completing an applicatio­n form, it is not even acknowledg­ed.

I would love to work just two or three days a week, as I feel I still have a lot to offer.

I decided to change career and applied to be shop assistant in a high-street chain.

My teenage granddaugh­ter applied to the same shop – guess who had an immediate interview and has got the job? Janet Delahunty,

Aylesbury

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