Immediately after going on a well-deserved vacation, almost everyone faces two problems: this is usually a small pension and the stress of changing their usual way of life and rhythm of life. In order to depend on these factors as little as possible, many of the newly-arrived pensioners begin to think about how to take their free time, and also find additional income.
Why is it so important for them to do something when, it would seem, you can finally rest and completely relax? The answer lies on the surface. The fact is that if a person after retirement continues to be active, this will significantly extend his life. At any age, he feels that people need him. He has a new environment, interests are changing, which positively affects his mood and health.
In this article we propose to get acquainted with some types of activities for senior citizens. They do not require cash costs, or they will be minimal if you need some materials. For many of these areas do not even need special knowledge and skills.
Hobbies - a source of additional income
Many older people have their own hobbies, which can be excellent sources of additional income for retirement. These include activities such as needlework (knitting, embroidery, creating soft toys, etc.), sewing clothes, making confectionery products, and much more. This list of various hobbies goes on and on.
Men with carpentry and carpentry skills could be engaged in a very profitable business, for example, such as the manufacture of kitchen furniture to order, garden arbors and benches.
Today, items made from environmentally friendly materials are in great demand. Natural wood products, such as frames for photos and paintings, highchairs, furniture for dolls, wooden toys, etc., are especially in demand on the market.
If you don’t have the necessary knowledge and skills to start doing this, today it is not difficult to find lessons and master classes for every taste in the public domain on the Internet. There are also quite a few ways to sell finished products. You can offer it to your friends and acquaintances, exhibit at various fairs, which are held a lot for any reason, or through social networks. The main thing is that you like it.
Making handmade soaps
Today, more and more people prefer to use organic products and natural cosmetics. This opens up a promising direction for pensioners: the organization of their own home-based business for the production of handmade soap. Everyone can learn how to cook it if they wish, especially since you can find many recipes on the Internet, and all the necessary ingredients, such as aromatic and vegetable oils, cosmetic clays, and much more can be freely and inexpensively purchased at any pharmacy. You can sell finished products, also using one of the methods listed above.
Receiving income from a private household
If you have a summer cottage with a land plot, or you generally live in a rural area in your own home, then you can earn a steady income by growing and selling products such as vegetables, fruits, various medicinal herbs, etc.
Various types of seedlings have always enjoyed great and constant demand among summer residents, so do not forget to build a small greenhouse on your site.
Another area that pensioners could do on their homestead is raising pets. If this is a summer residence, then in a small area you can breed decorative rabbits, chickens, turkey poults, quails and other poultry. In rural areas, large pets can be raised for milk and meat. All this is guaranteed will bring you constant profit.
Babysitting or nurse services
For retired women, if they are active and peppy, there is always, especially in big cities, a nanny or a nurse's job. The most popular are those who have a pedagogical or medical education. Today, many parents prefer that their child grow up at home and are not very keen on giving him to kindergarten. For them, a nanny with the experience of a teacher is a real find. After all, she will not only be able to look after the child, but also engage, if necessary, in its preparation for school.
The work of a nurse requires more effort and endurance from the applicant, as many patients are bedridden and need complete care. But the payment here can be much higher, especially if you worked in the medical field before retirement.
Tutoring
If you have a pedagogical education, and you have worked at school for many years, then you will be able to continue to do what you love after retiring. Tutor services are very popular today. They are in demand in almost all subjects. This preparation of students for the final exams at school, as well as providing assistance in various subjects to applicants before entering universities. The most popular subjects are foreign languages, mother tongue, physics, mathematics, chemistry and some others.
To find customers, you can advertise in your local newspaper, city site, or just stick them in your area. Then the grateful students themselves will begin to make advertising for you.
Earnings on your own website / blog
Today, when a computer with the Internet was included in almost every family, a very interesting direction appeared for obtaining additional, and for many, basic, income. To do this, you need to create your own website or blog, choose the right topic for it, which will be in demand by the potential audience and start publishing interesting content there. In a few months, search engines will raise it in search results, and you will get the opportunity to earn from advertising.
To create a site, you do not have to be an experienced programmer or have special skills. Today on the Internet there is a lot of material on how to make it with your own hands, using simple special designers with detailed instructions.
Dropshipping
Internet trading is an activity involving the resale of various goods, most often from China, on the Internet. In order to start doing this, pensioners will not need initial large investments for the purchase of goods. The work is carried out as follows:
- Find the goods you are interested in and negotiate with several suppliers;
- Fill the online store on your website with products with a margin of 10 to 30%;
- Promote your online resource to attract as many visitors as possible;
- after the goods are ordered, transfer all the customer data to the supplier;
- the supplier sends the order directly to the customer;
- you pay for the goods, leaving yourself a mark-up.
If you do not have your own site, and you do not want to "bother" with its creation, then you can do the same actions through social networks. To do this, you just need to create a thematic group there, gather as many subscribers as possible and start placing ads on these products there.
Remote specialist work
To engage in remote work via the Internet, it is necessary, first of all, to be a professional in a particular field.For example, today specialists in such areas as bookkeeping for small and medium-sized businesses, financial advice, and legal support are in great demand.
The services of remote workers are preferred by firms that do not need their full employment. You can find a similar job on numerous job sites.
Transfer
The work of translators is always in demand and well paid. If you are fluent in at least one foreign language, you need not worry about earning extra income. In order to do translations, you need to conclude an agreement with the appropriate bureau, which will send you texts. You fulfill the order, send it to the translation agency and receive the agreed salary for it.
The more you translate, the higher your income. Its value will depend only on your performance. The work is carried out via the Internet, so you can deal with translations not only from home, but also from anywhere in the world.
Copywriting
For pensioners with a philological education, the work of a copywriter is an excellent way to generate additional income. Its essence lies in the fact that you write commissioned articles on a given topic for various thematic sites. Articles should be with a high degree of uniqueness, which must be checked on special services.
After checking and accepting the assignment by the customer, you will be credited with the money earned in your account. Jobs copywriters can be found on freelance exchanges for the sale of articles.
