Are you having a mid-life crisis? How to deal with moving forwards

Alert: You might just have hit the manopause!

A lot of people hit the 45 plus age range and suddenly notice things are different. It happens to both men and women.

Perhaps you have just hit a key part of your life or a change moment. Maybe your aspirations have changed, your lifestyle. There are a lot of subliminal changes that can manifest and as if by magic, suddenly an impact happens.

You might get the urge to try something new or

you might now have the money you never had earlier in your life.

The 40 plus band is the time when you are likely to hit the danger zone. That is when the children may have gone off to university or left home, you divorce, grow apart, lose the long term job and maybe just decide to relocate and enjoy life.

Some people may hit a patch of frustration, where they want to progress but have not been able to be motivated or to have the ability or perhaps the time.

Some may have had a family and put them first, indeed they may still have family but yet seem unfulfilled. Perhaps they are trying to do too much at once.

It could be worse, I bought a London Transport Routemaster -

now that's a real mid-life crisis!

Perhaps they have friends who are unencumbered with family or similar responsibilities, that can make some feel jealous. But they will win in the end, as they will have a future generation, unlike their childless friends who will only have each other, if they are lucky.

Our consumer driven lifestyle is certainly to blame for some problems. Aspirations to have, are things that drive people to over extend themselves and think they want them, only in hindsight for these people to feel unfulfilled.

The 'New Age' which borrows much from the American Indian heritage and culture, appeals to many who are either burned out or who have seen through the bullshit of modern life and all that entails.

Automation is now killing the jobs market - will you be next?

With automation making big inroads into our lives, it will come where many do not have jobs to go to and a Basic Income Guarantee will have to come into take up the slack and provide a safety net.

The time is coming to think about what you want to do to with your life in the later stages. I would say start to plan now because the rise of the robots is well and truly on its way. Tomorrow is all about what you want to do. So go and do it!

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Age 50 plus - potential employees - Employers seeing 'millenial' employess as inexperienced.

Employers often fail to appreciate the experience

that older workers have to contribute to the workplace

Many employers are quite stupidly ignoring the decades of life and work skills that older employees can bring to a company.

Whilst we may hear of employees going on well past their retirement age because they like working and the job, they are sadly in the minority.

In the last century to date, people have been looking younger for longer. 60 is no longer seen as old, people who were 60 in 1939 looked 80 plus now. People who are 60 now were in the vanguard of the young once.

Evolution has taken steps and the next one is automation

There is supposedly 'ageism' legislation, but many employers are skirting this issue by looking at identifying pointers to eliminate applications from older people to interview.

They pursue the 'least cost option' of employing the youngest and least qualified, to whom they can pay the least.

They are sadly, missing out on employing people with real skills and experience who could enrich their workplaces.

Part of the 'education' system of recent years has been to 'breed in' a situation of dependency, creating a 'risk averse' and 'hands-off' generation. A generation that has been nannied to and hectored, not encouraged to take reasonable precaution and learn by practical experience.

The health and safety culture has deliberately engineered this dependency to the degree that in some large public establishments and corporations, a simple changing of a light bulb now generates the requirement for a 'professional' to attend a failed lightbulb, put out cones, erect a platform and replace said bulb, whilst charging around £100.00 to do so.

Common sense and a step ladder would have been cheaper and just as safe.