Week - 3 Retirement Job, Not a WalMart Greeter or Grocery Bagger

After investigating all the different jobs that were available to elder folks and taking note of what all the working retirees I came across were doing I knew that working a job that I may have had when I was 16 was not the way I wanted to live the good life I had planned.  So what could my retirement job be? All I could do is come up with questions, most of which the answers did not fit my age, if I was 30 or even 40 I had ideas, answers and solutions but not at 50 and knowing how quick time will fly. I wanted my retirement job to be fun; I wanted my retirement job to incorporate my interests.

I came to the realization that I had to change the way I have thought of many things that affect my life. I have determined that food, shelter, health, happiness, and family make the most impact on the life of the retiree and to have and enjoy these simple things in life I need some kind of income. We have been conditioned over the years to believe that only money equals income but that’s not the case.

So a retirement job(s) must be multi faceted. I will need to have a cash income from savings, investments, and social (in) security as well as a paying job and the skills to build an alternative income that will help me become a self-reliant person.