With plummeting 401(k) balances and soaring prices for gas, food, housing, and health care, millions of recent retirees have returned to work. However, after leaving the world of work, these the “non-retired” are not looking for just any job. According to experts, retirees are looking for flexible and part-time jobs.
Ideally, retirement jobs should also play to the retiree’s experience, talents, or resources to make the most money in the least amount of time.
There are a handful of online platforms that specifically seek retirees and near-retirees for flexible, part-time and, sometimes, remote work. Their objective is to capitalize on the retiree’s experience, while taking into account his need for flexibility. Overall, these sites work with small businesses that need experts in areas such as legal, human resources, marketing, logistics, project management, and accounting. Few of these jobs offer benefits, but many pay professional hourly rates. Here are some good sites to find this type of work.
Capitalize on experience
FlexJobs organizes telecommuting and part-time employment opportunities in almost any field, screening both companies and jobs to filter out scams. The site charges a modest annual fee but does not take any commission or other fees from workers’ salaries.
FlexProfessionals specializes in finding jobs in most professional fields, including finance, legal, communications and project management. There are no fees for job seekers. The site charges companies to fill positions. The only problem is that most of FlexProfessionals’ in-person work is done on the East Coast.
Release is a freelance marketplace for content creators, sales and marketing professionals, accountants, administrators, translators, and technicians. Applicants are carefully screened, but if accepted, they say they find plenty of well-paying work. Jobs are available nationwide.
WAHVE, which stands for Work at Home Vintage Experts, finds jobs in insurance, accounting and human resources for people in their 50s and 60s who want flexible hours. WAHVE is primarily interested in people with contemporary experience, who will take a pay cut for more flexibility. Workers are screened for their qualifications and notified when a position matches their skills.
To consult
Experience is the name of the game for consulting platforms that recruit experts in almost any field. These consultancies — which include Maven, Zintro and GLG — provide occasional business consultancy work on issues such as manufacturing, logistics, retail and security.
Each platform asks potential consultants to fill out a detailed form explaining their background and areas of expertise. The more detailed your answers are, the more likely you are to be matched with a consulting opportunity. You usually set your own rates. However, some sites will also offer you flat-rate gigs that match your expertise.
Be a fake juror
Mock jurors are also sometimes required to consult with attorneys on how effectively the legal team presented their case. These assignments typically involve reading or listening to an online case summary.
You don’t need any specific work experience to be a mock juror. However, fake juror sites generally exclude people with law enforcement and law enforcement backgrounds from adjudicating cases. Anyone can sign up for mock juror assignments via eJury, Verdict online, Jury test and SignUpDirect.
Use your strengths
If you purchased a motorhome, travel trailer, boat, jet skis, or similar recreational equipment to keep you busy during your retirement, you can use those assets when you’re not using them. A wide range of websites list rentals of virtually anything of value, from cameras to paddle boards. The right site will depend on what you have to rent.
If you have an RV, the best site to rent it to others—or to find an RV for rent—is Outside. What makes Outdoorsy a shade better than its competitors RVShare and RVnGo is that it does not charge fees on ancillary services such as cleaning and receives heavy web traffic, making it likely that you connect with a client.
That said, there is no cost to list an RV on any of these sites. You only pay commissions when your RV is rented. So there is no downside to signing up with RVShare and RVnGo too. Listing on all three sites gives you access to the most potential customers. But be sure to keep your calendar up to date to avoid overlapping bookings.
If you own a boat of any type, you can rent it through boat builder Where GetMyBoat.
Those with excess storage space can rent it through Neighbor.
Consider a roommate
Do you need a steady income but don’t want to work? If you have extra room in your home, consider taking on a tenant.
Naturally, you can register your home for overnight visitors via Airbnb. But a better bet for retirees is silver nesta site that matches approved roommates with empty nesters ready for long-term tenants.
Kristof is the editor of SideHusl.coman independent website that examines money-making opportunities in the gig economy.
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