Life after severance package
When Hans E.H. Jacobsen jumped by journalist career with severance package, it was a golden opportunity for a new cabin and alternative career.
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– the final package was a happy choice, says 60-year-old from Flekkefjord.
Now he sits with new cottage in Mandal and a new job as a fisherman sessions in farming.
Although the pay is half of the old job, did the alternate career plan that he had realized cottage dream before he had planned.
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From his former employer he had with him a 22 months of severance packages (including six months’ notice), and together with inheritance, savings and to put effort was hut along the southern coast erected within one years after he joined.
– I got more free time that I could use to build the cabin, and a checkers with money, he sums up.
Occupation choice he made that 57-year-old moves him to live a completely different life.
Earlier he conducted himself with sources and photographers. Now he tends instead the thermophilic flounder fish turbot in land fish farm to Stolt Sea Farm Turbot Norway in Kvinesdal.
24-hour occupation
He had worked in the regional newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad in 27 years when it was a new severance package round.
– I was getting a little tired job in Stavanger Aftenblad with downsizing and the deadline around the clock in the newspaper. If I got a tip clock 23, I could not wait until the next day. It was almost a of beds work.
He longs not return to the old life as a journalist when he walks past his former office. 
– Now when I see people working with computers, so I think poor bastards.
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Even if labor does not always offer great choices, so he was lucky and broke quickly into a new job. At first he was an assistant in a kindergarten before he was fishing sessions.
– It’s just absolutely wonderful. I worked on the newspaper’s regional office in Flekkefjord and decided my own business. It was not a night without a thought of what to do the next day. Now I will not have it. I just meet up at 07 and work 15, and then there are leaders who decide what to do.
Do not caught by prestisjejag
Now jobs he with the feeding of fish, harvesting and cleaning of the vessel. 60-year-old likes physical work after many years in office chair.
– I’d never been years as a journalist without, but it was good to quit. It was a happy choice.
At the end of his career he has been LO member.
– I’ve never been out for a prestigious job. Now I’m in low paid, and it does nothing, says Jacobsen.
Must accept lower wages
Change of job for seniors over 55 years is not particularly common according to Kari Østerud who is head of the Center for senior policy.
– They are enough exceptions. Most continue to work out completely, go early retirement or disability benefits.
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Østerud mean seniors have to accept that a job change often means lower wages.
– Maybe we need to think again. No one is guaranteed to retain their wages. This is heavy realizations. Maybe it becomes less skummmelt whose job performance is not linked to what we earn. We see that the main motivation for staying in work is not high income, but the work environment.
Østerud notes that seniors in practice have three choices at the end of his career:
1. Liquidation: When you see retirement is around the next corner, hugging one gets stuck and does not engage in any form of human resource development.
2. Surfer in: The expertise sitting on is in demand, at least for a period, and the employee trying to surf in the recent past.
3. Development: Employee intend to work long and has a plan to maintain and develop skills. Meanwhile, they have a readiness to change jobs.
Have you received severance package in DNB? Contact our journalist: lars.solem@dn.no
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