Personal Budget Training: Seeking Beer And A Conversation

Monday, April 7, 2008

Seeking Beer And A Conversation

How would you like to be paid to drink and converse with Jack Hammond?

He recently moved into a nursing home in Winsor, England to be closer to his family. His new home has only one other male resident and while he found himself with a good local pub, he had left all his old drinking friends behind.

While his son Mike takes Mr. Hammond out for a drink once a week, they thought it would be good for him to expand his social circle a little.

The advertisement reads: Person to accompany elderly gentleman to the pub. Possibly two evenings a week. Probably two hours per evening. Seven pounds an hour plus expenses.So far four people have applied to join Mr. Hammond at the Compass Inn in Winsor twice a week for a couple of hours.

Mr. Hammond is a very intelligent man with a physics and maths degree. He used to go to the pub three or four times a week and have a couple of beer with a neighbour who was of a similar age. Possible topics of conversation include the Second World War, in which Mr Hammond served as a radar engineer in Bombay and Kuala Lumpur, and the challenges of running a power plant.

Sounds like a great service to start if you are a good conversationalist.

Labels: Job, retirement