Vacancies For Senior Citizens

Applications are invited from senior citizens for the position of General Managers in households in large upmarket apartment complexes all over India..

Candidates should be atleast graduates keeping in line with the status of the apartment complex.Should be proficient in English,their mother tongue and Hindi.Working knowledge of local language will be an added advantage,People in their early sixties will be preferred in view of their better mobility.Should be computer literate so that they can handle their bank accounts,Pancard and Aadhar card complications and not be a pest on the ever busy children.Should be able to independently handle their age related issues like blood sugar,rumbling stomach,hearing problems,weak knees and bulging discs in the spinal chord etc.Assistance will be provided for heart ailments on week ends.

Job description includes:

Render pre and post delivery assistance to children working abroad atleast a couple of times to enable grand children to be recognised as citizens of the host countries.
Under Indian conditions:
Get the school going children ready including packing of food and dropping at the bus stand as and when necessary.
Take care of the household work including supervision of maids and ensuring the safety of the house in the absence of the house owner and his wife who are in a rush to go to office.Cook lunch for themselves as children have access to a satisfying choice of delicacies in the food courts.
Open the door and take delivery of Amazon and Big basket couriers any number of times without grumbling.
Stand in the queue for the vegetable van and keep the fridge stocked with vegetables.
Take the grandchildren to the play area, dance class,badminton class,karate class etc and ensure their safe return home.
Keep snacks ready when the grandchildren come home from school and ensure their comfort.Should eschew the habit of criticising the children for eating junk food , eating before the TV or meddling with the Tab all the time. Keep an eye on what grand children are watching on the you tube when they reach their teens.
Should not have expectations that the young couple will spend time with them,share any information or seek their advice
Should not indulge in giving unsolicited advice on food habits,life style etc and give long anecdotes of their sacrifices and suffering[since they have retired from life’s competition they busy themselves with complete repetition] and particularly avoid embarrassing the youngsters when they have their colleagues visiting them.
Should refrain from gossiping about the family when they meet their peergroup and not
indulge in useless banter.

Finally should be able to travel by public transport to markets,railway station etc.

The employers reserve the right to demand additional dos and donts as exigencies demand.

Remuneration will be in the shape of free accommodation,free food,TV facility during office hours,toiletries, unlimited use of the common facilities in the complex, celebration of their birthdays and mandatory prostration on important festival days.


Those interested may walk in with their Aadhar card,blood test report[HbA1c,blood sugar,liver function test,kidney function test,ultra sound of the abdomen,ECG and Echo Cardiogram]

PS[AUTHORS NOTE]

OLD PEOPLE HAVE THE ADVANTAGE OF KNOWING EVERY THING ABOUT YOUNG AGE WHERE AS YOUNSTERS ARE IGNORANT OF WHAT THE OLD AGE IS ABOUT

 

Dear Satchitananda,
There are very many plus points-the comfort zone is that children are available to take care of you.I have daily interaction with twenty seniors out of available seventy everyday.They also feel happy that their children have bought the second house by the time they are forty and EMI compulsions are there for both to work.Lack of time ,energy and insensitivity to the seniors emotional needs add to distress.
SLN

 

There is nothing better for the the grand children to have grand parents to look after them in their formative years.While people in their sixties love it those in their seventies find it difficult.Cooks and servants get separate instructions regarding feeding the children that they pretend as if grand parents are not there."These little things" as you rightly said are often ignored not wantonly but out of insensitivity and not included in priories.
Nice to be back again,but how long-I do not know.
SLN

 

Dear Pushpavalli
The cases where children live abroad is entirely different.The confusion arises when they come to India on their biannual holidays.Sometimes they behave as if they survived here somehow and there is no need for their children to go through this experience.I have seen some youngsters staying in service apartments while here due to various reasons.For seniors who are not technosavy the situation is really difficult.Inspite of this they will not spare any sacrifice to see their children prosper.Let me give you specific example.
The gentleman is 71 and suffers from Parkinson,diabetes,hypertension and non alholic cirrhosis of the liver etc and cannot do anything independently.His wife[65] is not even a matriculate and from a rural area.I heard her telling her son in US on telephone "dont worry -I will take care of your father-you concentrate on your career and come back only when you have a bank balance of Rs3crores" This is the senior spirit.
Sorry I shared only a negative story.
Regards
SLN

 

You are right.Better equation should prevail with seniors appreciating the compulsions and children alive to the psycological and emotional needs.
SLN