{"id":76251,"date":"2025-07-19T20:33:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T20:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/76251\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T20:33:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T20:33:15","slug":"what-its-like-navigating-the-uk-job-market-in-your-60s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/76251\/","title":{"rendered":"What it&#8217;s like navigating the UK job market in your 60s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of <a title=\"\" class=\"interallink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/age-of-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">our ongoing series \u201cThe Age of Work,\u201d<\/a> about how demographic shifts are shaking up the global economy, \u201cMarketplace\u201d host Kai Ryssdal and ADP chief economist Nela Richardson visited London, England. The United Kingdom has a higher percentage of people over 65 than the United States and holds insights into our economic future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On a park bench in Kings Cross, London, Ryssdal and Richardson met Stuart Morris, a 62-year-old IT professional, to hear about his experience in the workforce in his 60s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, Morris was laid off from his job. He applied for new jobs and got new technical certifications to add to his resume. But the years passed, and he still couldn\u2019t find a job. The experience, he said, was terrifying.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not ready to retire, and I\u2019ve still got lots to give,\u201d Morris said. \u201cWhat I really had to think about was that feeling of invisibility, like you\u2019d just been erased. Your self-worth is ebbing away.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To move forward, Morris said he had to swallow his pride and accept lower pay and a lower title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was content to accept that my place in the hierarchy had moved, so I got myself back into a role,\u201d he said. \u201cIt beats being invisible any day of the week, and that\u2019s what the unemployed scenario feels like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Use the audio player above to hear the full story.<\/p>\n<p>Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As part of our ongoing series \u201cThe Age of Work,\u201d about how demographic shifts are shaking up the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":76252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1081,64,18785,605,420,766,376,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-76251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-aging","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-demographics","11":"tag-job-hunting","12":"tag-jobs","13":"tag-unemployment","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114881812057723063","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}