Search for multi-person jobs 50 years This is not an easy task and in this country European Union with the highest rate unemployment and 2.7 million more unemployed, fewer. Over 50s looking for a job in an EU country where unemployment is the highest and even lower with the onset of the pandemic. That’s how it happened trishiaA resident of the Barcelona Free Trade Zone whose temporary contract ended because people had to go for walks by age group and covid vaccines were still in test tubes.
The journey to reintegration into the labor market was neither short nor easy. “They think I’m old, they see your wrinkles and they just throw you aside. They don’t even let you explain, you test, test, test… and nothing. They make you feel useless, that annoying“trishia was working as a sales assistant at a second-hand clothing store when her payment expired. agreement. And after trying many times, he decided to throw the blanket on his head, register as a freelancer and open his own clothing store.
“One piece of clothing can last 20 years Most of them throw it away and buy a new one for both of them. It doesn’t make sense,” he says passionately, aware of what suffers when the same logic is applied by (some) companies when hiring and firing workers with a little gray hair.
Trishia tells her story, sitting in a chair in her store at number three on the street. Guasch Street in Badalona. From time to time, a customer enters the store as he remembers the steps that took him there. When they see him speaking, they greet him from afar and say, “I’ll be back later.” “Sometimes I feel like more than just a salesperson psychologist. Customers come to relieve stress, sometimes buy something to feel beautiful, and some just stop by to chat. “It reminds me of when I worked as a hairdresser many years ago,” he says.
He has only opened his business for nine months and has a good portfolio of regular customers (especially female customers) despite living in the Free Trade Zone. From the entrance of his house to raising the shutters of his store, it takes him an hour and 20 minutes every day, but he lives Happy With his own job he doesn’t ‘scab happily’ and even gets a little hurt when the holidays fall and he can’t go out.
Trishia was born first in Honduras 51 years, took over from a woman from Badalona who handed over her job due to retirement. It was difficult for him to find a place at a competitive price, and he was on the verge of giving up and leaving to try his luck. United States of America. Since the plane ticket was already purchased and four days before departure, the tenant called him and said that the building belonged to him.
Nowadays, the meaning of being self-employed and starting a business is suffering. “Taxis keep coming every month, but the customers don’t always show up,” he says. The alternative is probably on the unemployment roll. Four out of every 10 unemployed people are over the age of 50, and half of them have been looking for a new job for more than a year but to no avail. “Owning my own business requires a lot of effort, but at the same time I value myself very much. “You never stop learning and I have plans too,” he says, focusing on setting up his first store so he can open another.