My Grandma Needs Employment - Any Ideas??

Updated on July 27, 2008
D.C. asks from Wheaton, IL
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My 80 year old grandma (yiayia) was working part time at a telemarketing place before they closed. She needs to bring in a little extra cash but does not have computer skills. She is a professional, smart, witty woman who doesn't look her age. Do you have any ideas where she can find a job? She is really young at heart and physically mobile, and has transportation. I'm at a loss on how to help her find one. I found her a part-time job as a greeter at a library, but she was too intimidated to fill out the 4-page application asking for work experience when she hasn't worked full time in 20 years, or worked at all for years in there too. Any ideas are appreciated! She lives in Glen Ellyn.

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S.S.

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Hospitals? The schools are a good place too...My mom is seventy six and is excited about her job interview coming up at Healthcare center next week. Your mom is not alone. Also if she wants some pretty basic computer skills tell her to call her local library. Classes are free. I go to them all the time and I am fifty, most of the others are older than me. Haha. I'm the baby. Anyway, she'd meet new people and learn something. The world is filled with wonderful people like your grandma.

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J.H.

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I hate to think of gram working at 80 but good for her for staying so active! Have you ever thought about Costco? They have those folks that make food that customers test?

Good luck to Gram-

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J.G.

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If she's not opposed to retail, try Walmart or Target. They don't descriminate and she can work the registers, greeter, or even customer service.
Most hospitals have the older people 'volunteer' instead of getting paid, so that might be along shot.
Another place might be a retirement home. She could work there, socialize with people she can relate to, maybe work with the 'social director' and plan activites and such.
Let us know how it works out.
J.

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C.P.

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How about at a school. ANswering phones, maybe or in the cafetaria. My gram worked at a public school helping in cooking the lunch and sometimes would help serve. She was 80 when she worked there. She is now 92 and just quit a few agos. My gram sounds liek your gram, young at heart and still all though and rearing to go. My gram likes to be on the go. She goes out everyday.

I would check in to the school district or the company that does the lunches at school. I know at the school my gram was at first it was marriot and then they changed to aramark. I know that the shcools like to ahve someone older that can still do things.

Tell good luck and stay young.

C.

AI saw that you are going to be a stay at home mom, I am . I was just wondering are you going to eb working from home? If so what are you goin gto do? I am trying to find a job that I can do from home.

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