Why We Went Back to Work After Retiring
What would you do if you had worked all of your life, and you had created a nice income to retire with, only to have it taken away from you and you had no control over losing it? Maybe you weren't even aware it was being stolen from you, then what? A Retirement Job? Hadn't even considered that option, until now. We figured that jobs for seniors would be almost non-existent, at least that is what we had heard. (It's true).
With the economy down-turn from poor government management, our "fixed income" stayed stable, but the expenses really starting to climb, we had to do so something. The stock market almost collapsed and it took our retirement savings with it. Our principal investment came from the stock we had purchased in the business we retired from. It fell from $72 dollars per share --- to $12 dollars a share, and it did it in 6 weeks, too fast for us to recover. Over 3000 shares were shattered. Most if it had dropped before we even knew it was dropping. We had two other accounts that fell the same way.
The decision of going back to work after retiring was not a difficult decision, but the 'what to do' was very difficult. After all, no business will hire a senior when they feel they can hire the younger for the trade of less money and more production. That seems to be the American way of thinking. We had to defeat that thinking - and - we did!
Where would you start looking to replace or at least supplement a retirement income? That was fairly easy for us as we both had desk-top computers, and had them since retirement from a large computer chip company. The gravitation to the computer generation seemed to be the natural thing to do. We already were exchanging e-mail with family and friends, so the transition would be one of system education, not trying to figure out how to work a computer.
Thankfully, the internet doesn't ask your age, so that was the obvious place to start looking. We didn't really want a job as such, but we did want the income. At my instance, my wife created a great looking web page, and we started marketing multiple items, representing numerous outlets in an affiliate position. Gorgeous looking page with multiple layers of products, and --- nothing! We had no sales plan and didn't know how to start one.
We hired a professional to give us the necessary web exposure to create sales. We needed exposure - a lot of exposure. After 3 years of experimentation, they failed, forcing us to fail as well. We were learning - I give it that.
We found that internet marketing is the way to go, but we really needed a product that was in high demand, and the business we were associated with had the means and the desire to help their associate gathering. We were looking for the latest, most active product we could find. We found it to be in internet marketing education. After a lot of investigation, we found a business that seemed to be legitimate, honest, and fair with equal opportunity and without the bias of age discrimination - something that is pretty hard to locate.
Now, we are self-employed and loving it. Life is looking much better for us. It can look better for you as well, if you just look, investigate your findings, look outside the box and give the extra effort. It pays off in the long run.
With the economy down-turn from poor government management, our "fixed income" stayed stable, but the expenses really starting to climb, we had to do so something. The stock market almost collapsed and it took our retirement savings with it. Our principal investment came from the stock we had purchased in the business we retired from. It fell from $72 dollars per share --- to $12 dollars a share, and it did it in 6 weeks, too fast for us to recover. Over 3000 shares were shattered. Most if it had dropped before we even knew it was dropping. We had two other accounts that fell the same way.
The decision of going back to work after retiring was not a difficult decision, but the 'what to do' was very difficult. After all, no business will hire a senior when they feel they can hire the younger for the trade of less money and more production. That seems to be the American way of thinking. We had to defeat that thinking - and - we did!
Where would you start looking to replace or at least supplement a retirement income? That was fairly easy for us as we both had desk-top computers, and had them since retirement from a large computer chip company. The gravitation to the computer generation seemed to be the natural thing to do. We already were exchanging e-mail with family and friends, so the transition would be one of system education, not trying to figure out how to work a computer.
Thankfully, the internet doesn't ask your age, so that was the obvious place to start looking. We didn't really want a job as such, but we did want the income. At my instance, my wife created a great looking web page, and we started marketing multiple items, representing numerous outlets in an affiliate position. Gorgeous looking page with multiple layers of products, and --- nothing! We had no sales plan and didn't know how to start one.
We hired a professional to give us the necessary web exposure to create sales. We needed exposure - a lot of exposure. After 3 years of experimentation, they failed, forcing us to fail as well. We were learning - I give it that.
We found that internet marketing is the way to go, but we really needed a product that was in high demand, and the business we were associated with had the means and the desire to help their associate gathering. We were looking for the latest, most active product we could find. We found it to be in internet marketing education. After a lot of investigation, we found a business that seemed to be legitimate, honest, and fair with equal opportunity and without the bias of age discrimination - something that is pretty hard to locate.
Now, we are self-employed and loving it. Life is looking much better for us. It can look better for you as well, if you just look, investigate your findings, look outside the box and give the extra effort. It pays off in the long run.
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