Post retirement work: what are your options?

I am curious as to what you mean by “needlework”. If you mean that you can sew and do alterations, I’m certain you can make $ doing that. It is getting harder each year to find people with that skill! Post on neighborhood Facebook accounts and things like that and you’d be surprised. Especially if you include reminders that you can patch jeans for kids so parents don’t have to buy new stuff. Times are harder now and people are trying to be thrifty! Would you be willing to teach others how to sew? You could do that via zoom for now due to COVID.

There are plenty of jobs depending on where you work. My mom lives in a town with A LOT of older people, many hold just about any job you can think of. We live near a city and my hubby has turned his love of firearms into working part time at a gun store while he gets certifications to become an instructor. I am returning to work as an RN at 58. You can do it!

AARP web site has good information about jobs for seniors. I have used it and found it to be practical and very encouraging.

My husband pursued magic and is now a magician giving shows. I thing the piddly 1% increase in SSI this year was a effing joke! I can’t quite decide where I will spend that extra $15 per month. Where the heck did they come up with that with the cost of living rising as it has?

I sell on eBay and it gives me a good income. I love junk so I go to garage and estate sales, buy what I know will sell, and put it up for auction. You can sell any number of things online.....from the comfort of your own home in your pjs if you like. Books are a big seller.....which can be bought at sales for a quarter. Or sell off some of your own things like costume jewelry and bags you no longer use.

Tutor online, especially ESL.

Farmers Markets here can increase your monthly income by thousands if you have something that others want.

Homemade items, soaps and organic food are super hot, fresh eggs sell for 7 bucks a dozen. I help a lady and she can clear 800.00 in a day.

Oh, homemade candy sell for 1.50 to 3.00 a piece and she is gone in an hour every Saturday.

Best of luck finding what fits for you.

Would you have any interest in brief hourly respite care? I always wondered about some of our frequent advice givers who are really great at advice (that is DEFINITELY YOU) and whether they would consider something it seems to me there is such a crying need for. We see so many posters who just need to have a few hours a few times a week, to get away with a friend, to go on an appointment of their own. It seems there is no one to provide just a "sitter service" to watch over an elder who cannot be alone. I guess you would have to make clear what services you would or would not provide, but sitters aren't really expected to do hands on care. I considered pet sitting in my home at one time; in my city it pays well and I miss my elder dogs so would enjoy that. Hope you will update us on what you find that might work for you.

GA,
The seniors in my area are working legal jobs.
1) Driving for Uber and Lyft.
2) Caregiving and housekeeping for their neighbors, errands.
3) Selling your 'hobbies' online through Amazon, Pay Pal, etc.
4) Process Service, serving legal papers.
or Mobile Notaries.
5) Shopping Service for seniors.
6) Making deliveries for Instacart, and the many delivery apps available.
7) Landscaping and garden advice while senior hires the labor separately.
8) Stipends paid through organizations such as NAMI, Special Needs, and
some charities.
9) Renting out rooms or homes to Air bnb.
10) And, the very popular idea is to teach or sell your expertise to others:
Dancing, yoga, e-oils, or have a blog that somehow makes money.