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blazey · 20-02-2009, 20:20

thankfully I am young, perhaps naive, but still full of ambition and fresh opportunities and choices. I have been made redundant from jobs clearly because I was the youngest amongst older employees and considered to be the least effected by it.

there are people in their 50's at university, some on my course, and they get the same funding as any other student. experience in careers is taken into account for mature students rather than qualifications alone, and I've spent a lot of my time around older students when I was campaigning for the DCE last year, which I mentioned on this forum.

redundancy isn't pleasant, nobody is saying that, but it doesn't have to be the end of the world, whatever age you are. If I thought this wasn't the case then I wouldn't say so, but then I suppose Lancaster might as well be an entirely different world to Accrington.

20-02-2009, 20:20	#71
blazey God Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Denton/Oswaldtwistle Posts: 3,638 Blog Entries: 15 Liked: 0 times Rep Power: 994	Re: Redundancy good for the soul thankfully I am young, perhaps naive, but still full of ambition and fresh opportunities and choices. I have been made redundant from jobs clearly because I was the youngest amongst older employees and considered to be the least effected by it. there are people in their 50's at university, some on my course, and they get the same funding as any other student. experience in careers is taken into account for mature students rather than qualifications alone, and I've spent a lot of my time around older students when I was campaigning for the DCE last year, which I mentioned on this forum. redundancy isn't pleasant, nobody is saying that, but it doesn't have to be the end of the world, whatever age you are. If I thought this wasn't the case then I wouldn't say so, but then I suppose Lancaster might as well be an entirely different world to Accrington.