So, I have a secret that I want to share with you. Don't tell anybody this, but I am an older
worker. You know, they say that protected class begins at the age of 40. I don't
think you really start feeling any kind of age discrimination until maybe you're in your fifties.
At least that's the way that I felt it and individuals that I personally know have felt
it. And many of the clients that I've worked with have felt it. So even though it starts at 40,
people don't really start sensing it. But I'm not saying everyone out there, but for the majority
people, they really don't start sensing it until they're right at the age of 50 or in
the mid-fifties. And so, I have always tried to target my videos to professionals, in mid-career,
those individuals that are, you know, in their fifties, going up into their early sixties.
The one area though that I really haven't done any kind of laser focus
on are individuals that are strictly over the age of 60. And I thought, you know what
people - there, that a lot of individuals are still in the workforce out there at the age of 60,
but there's also a lot of individuals that are looking at winding down their careers. So,
they maybe want to, you know, take a step out of corporate America, step out of the rat race, but
still be productive. And even individuals that are collecting social security have maybe gone
back into the workforce, not because of needing the money, but really just needing to fill their
time to feel useful. And so, in today's video, what I wanted to do was I wanted to share with you
eight different career opportunities that are available out there, um, for
individuals that are 62 years and over now, as I said, a few moments ago,
I primarily work with individuals professionals that is in mid to lake career.
So, the opportunities that I'm gonna discuss with you, most of 'em do require a college education.
There's not gonna be getting around some of these, but there's also some positions out there that
may say that they require a college education. But based upon a video that I did a couple of
weeks ago and that'll link in the upper right hand corner education requirements
are at times negotiable nowadays, there's more and more companies out there that are really not
abiding by these educational. So, keep that in mind when I'm going through this list,
but I did wanna share with you a list that it was based. It was a study that was based
by the urban Institute. It was a health and retirement study where they found that
these are occupations, that a number of individuals 62 years and over will
go into if they want to do a career pivot, or maybe they want to go back into the workforce.
So, if this is something that you know, you're looking at, or maybe you're looking at it
on, uh, core career coming up, it's something you might want to prepare for. So first off,
this one is no surprise, but it also might not be something that's really been on your radar.
And that is teaching. And what I would say is substitute
teaching. You know, we've been going through some trying times right now,
and there are, uh, what they all 30-day emergency teaching credentials out there.
You, if you have a bachelor's degree, you can pretty easily, um, get into a teaching credential
and become a substitute teacher out there. And you set your own hours with that. So, there's that
opportunity. And there's also so more opportunity if you have advanced degrees if you wanna look at
maybe taking a part-time teaching job at a local community college or even a university out there.
So, there is a number of positions that really require just a bachelor's degree
or master's degree, uh, at the community college levels. And I've actually looked into that myself
years ago. In fact, it was something that I really kind of thought I would do it before coaching ever
became a idea in his head. So that's the first opportunity. The second opportunity is the
personal healthcare industry. So, home healthcare aids, this is something that according to that
study, we're gonna see a growth of 33% between 2020 and 2030. And, you know, we got an aging
population. Now I know I am talking to individuals that, you know, are looking at, say 62 and, and
over and are saying, well, we, I be one of those patients out there, but not necessarily LA bureau
of labor statistics is showing that a large number of individuals that are 62 and over will go into
this industry as a way to, you know, supplement their income or maybe fulfill their time.
So that's the second one. The third one is real estate, uh, residential real estate. So,
there's a lot of individuals out there that have left corporate America and got into real
estate. And they like this because of the, uh, flexible hours. But do keep this one in mind
is that you are kind of at the mercy of those individuals that are looking for a new house
and when want to be looking at those new houses, it's usually going to be on the weekends. So,
it is something that you can do part-time but you might be sacrificing your weekends for doing that.
But that is, you know, I, it was just an idea that I wanted to kind of plant in your head.
The fourth one is drivers, and I've talked about this in several earlier videos
where I have gone to San Francisco to meet with clients before.
And I, you know, often will take Uber or Lyft into the city and I'll talk to these drivers. And
these, you know, these, it are drivers who are, they're doing it full time and they're making over
$50,000 a year, but I'm not necessarily talking about Uber drivers or food delivery drivers,
but there's other ones out there. Truck drivers right now are in a high demand,
but also just, you know, your regular school bus drivers as well. This was something that,
uh, one of my, uh, uncles did a few years back is he actually, he left his position and was in
retirement and he actually took a, uh, part-time job driving school buses. So there's something
that you might wanna consider there and talking about school buses. Um, another one is, uh,
childcare. Now this is mainly something that more, I would say women do more than men, but it is, and
it's not as high paying job as others, but there is a lot of women that will start doing childcare
as, as a supplemental income or just something to do, you know, after leaving the workforce.
Another one. And I, I was surprised by this one. I would've never thought about this idea,
but it's joining the clergy. So, there's a lot of men out there. Again, I was, I was surprised about
how many, you know, the percentage out there, but there was a lot of men who have decided
to join the clergy and I'm talking professor. And then when I read this, I realized that I actually
know someone, I, someone that I used to work with, he became a pastor out there. I don't know if he's
full great pastor or if he's an assistant pastor, but this is something that he decided to follow.
So, passion out there. If this is something that if you're very spiritual or if you're, you know,
much ingrained in your church, something you might want to consider. Another one is writers.
Now, if you feel that you're a good writer and let me back up for just a moment.
My very first college degree was in journalism, and I did freelance writing out there. I know
that there are or opportunities, especially in the digital world for freelance writing. You know, if
there, if you have a passion, I don't care if it's motocross or chess, there are magazines out there,
and there are opportunities to write for these magazines. You, you know, do a lot of freelance
writing, but here's something else. And that is resume writing. You know, you don't need to
have a degree or credential or a certificate. If you feel that you're a good resume writer,
you could hang a shingle out and sit there and start charging money for, uh, creating resumes
for individuals. The sad thing about what I just said is that there is no requirement to do this.
So there is some what I would say, some people out there that they can
make a really pretty looking resume, but that resume is not going to get the job.
So would recommend in that, although there's no governing agency for resume writing, there
is something called the national association of resume writers. And I can put this in a link, the
note section below, where you can take a number of classes, um, and become credentialed as a resume
writer. And then the final thing, this one's what sent in the study. I'm actually substituting
something, uh, that was in the study because I just didn't think it was really relevant,
uh, for this video. And what I'm substituting is what I do. And that's coaching you probably,
maybe you're aware of this, maybe you're not, but you don't need any kind of credential or degree or
certification to call yourself a coach. But there is an organization it's called the international
coach Federation ICF. It's a membership organization it's, you know, costly to join
every year. And they will credential you based upon taking tests and, and submitting X number
of hours of how many, um, coaching hours that you've had before they'll even credential you.
And I have that credential. I know a lot of coaches will have that out there. I also know
that in all of the time that I've been coaching, nobody's ever asked me if I'm credentialed by the
ICF, but again, in, you can get credentialed by the ICF you don't need to, but there are a
lot of opportunities. I mean, there's, you know, not only would I do career coaching, but there's
life coaching, there's spiritual coaching, there's health and wellness coaching. That's
a big one out there. A friend of mine, a very close family friend of mine. She is a attorney
and she to leave the legal profession to raise a family. And she actually hired a coach who was
a former attorney who had done the same thing. So think about what you've been doing out there for,
you know, your career. And is there an opportunity to coach others in that or mentor them again,
here are eight different opportunities that, you know, maybe you haven't thought about
if you're looking at either supplementing your income in these retirement years, or just
really getting back out into the workforce, doing something but doing something part-time.
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