Today I am reflecting on hitting 60 next month. For the past year after full employment I have been Unemployed for 7 out of the past 12 months with health issues and on sickness benefit since September. I have to acknowledge, despite the industry I work in being in a slump that I am not shortlisted for posts I apply for and I think some of that has to do with my age plus what I have been doing to myself in the ever downward spiral of gambling addiction. I have to make a decision soon re my financial situation and I have to accept that if I go down theroute of bankruptcy then my career is pretty much finished. I have to accept this although I hope that in recovery this is not how events play out.
But I have to also accept that events may also play out this way. In which case I will have to reinvent myself. One thing I know for sure is that I outright refuse to live in poverty. It has never been my way Pre gambling and it certainly isn’t post gambling and in recovery.
I have been reading about people who only became successful after sixty. Daniel Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe in his sixties as did the chap who wrote master and commander at 65.
So if I cannot get a job once I am well, I have written a list of the things I am interested in. No point doing anything that you don’t like to do.
Online entrepreneur that can be done anywhere
Nutritional medicine/nutriceuticals
Writing/author
Jesus centred healing
Addictions coun selling only in gambling although I think the training for general counselliing would be too long
A doctorate
Mental Heath first aid
Volunteer work with cancer or hospice
I have a science based MBA, I should be able to be an entrepreneur. I have all the training for it. Just need to find the right avenue. Anyways, just capturing my thought on all of this to see where they may take me.
I have started my triple therapy at long last.