A little something for a Sunday afternoon

Some time back I published an article around the song .....

The Times they Are A Changin'.... by Bob Dylan....

Looking for a job for over 50's The Times They Are A Changin' so sang Bob Dylan in the 1960's, and they are certainly very changed from what we expected our futures to be when we as the so called 'baby boomers' were at school. We went to work and then expected to get our pensions at 60 or 65, and it was not unusual to have been in the same job since leaving school.

Some of us will choose to work for longer because of the contacts and friendships work and the benefits a routine of going to work gives to us, but many more will be in the position of having no choice but to work, indeed to even be looking for a job when they are well past 50, and would have been thinking not of starting a new job, but looking forward to retirement a few years off. Often, because we are older this means looking for work while coping with health problems too, but the governments crackdown on sickness related benefits again means that many in such a position are forced ,as indeed I have been, to look for work....

 The Times They Are A changin'
 Gather 'round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown
And accept it that soon You'll be drenched to the bone If your time to you Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin' Or you'll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin'

Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen Keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again
Don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who That it's namin'

For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they, they are a-changin' 

 Come senators, Congressmen Please heed the call Don't block at the doorway Don't block up the hall

For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There's a battle outside And it's ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin'

Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land Don't criticize What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is Rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one If you can't lend a hand For your times they are a-changin'

The line it is drawn And the curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast
As the present now Will later be past The order is Rapidly fadin'
And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin'

More recently I expressed on my personal blog http://valerieehedges.blogspot.co.uk

For a reason or a season come to valerie's place...

my love of the 60's Australian group the Seekers, fronted by Judith Durham, still going strong , especially the solo work by Judith who is now 69 and this year performed in Australia with INXS !!..the song was a great Seekers favourite of mine..Georgy Girl, which from childhood has felt like a personal anthem, not only for me but for many.....and has a bit of a cult around it in the nicest possible way....Judith Durham herself has said that the song is better known in America than even the Seekers themselves !! what I didn't know , or rather had forgotten since I do now recall it, is that the Seekers also recorded The times they are a changin'

   

But...please do share and enjoy with me..... http://youtu.be/sXprfBmEpUI     Judith Durham with Inxs singing her hit Georgy Girl ....still working, still enjoying her career and adapting with the times in fact saying that her range is better than ever as she has got older....quite an inspiration for older job hunting ladies to follow !! 

For lyrics and a link to Judith Durhams website with updates, messages and news from her go to my personal blog (where the fun stuff is !!)

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http://valerieehedges.blogspot.co.uk

valerie



My profits  from sales of this book via my site will be passed to the Motor Neurone charity as Judith Durham's husband died with this condition....Ms. Durham and the Seekers have given the world wonderful , inspirational music for many years and in respect of that I would not wish to personally profit from advertising her book....